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The Little SAS Book is a comprehensive book on SAS programming for computer science professionals and engineers. The book covers the most commonly used features of SAS, including basics such as DATA and PROC steps, input, modification and combination of datasets, summarizing data, producing reports and debugging the programs. The book is filled with examples and illustrations set in a two-page layout for each topic which makes it easier for students and professionals to grasp the concepts. In addition, this new edition includes ODS Graphics for statistical procedures, PROC SGPLOT for graphics, creating new variables in PROC REPORT with a COMPUTE block, WHERE= data set option, SORTSEQ=LINGUISTIC option in PROC SORT, and more functions, including ANYALPHA, CAT, PROPCASE, and YRDIF. About the Authors Lora D. Delwiche is an American applications software consultant with the Information Technology Department at the University of California at Davis. She has been working as a SAS site representative and teaches the SAS language to many professionals. Susan J. Slaughter is an independent computing consultant and SAS professional. She has been using the SAS language to manage large databases for businesses and academic institutions and has been teaching SAS software classes.