Chapter Organization

Introduction

Chapter Organization

This book is organized as follows.

Chapter 1, "Changes and Enhancements to SAS/STAT Software in V7 and V8," contains information about the updates that are included in this release (Version 8). Chapter 2, this chapter, provides an overview of SAS/STAT software and summarizes related information, products, and services. The next ten chapters provide some introduction to the broad areas covered by SAS/STAT software. Subsequent chapters describe the SAS procedures that make up SAS/STAT software. These chapters appear in alphabetical order by procedure name.

The chapters documenting the SAS/STAT procedures are organized as follows:

The Overview section provides a brief description of the analysis provided by the procedure.
The Getting Started section provides a quick introduction to the procedure through a simple example.
The Syntax section describes the SAS statements and options that control the procedure.
The Details section discusses methodology and miscellaneous details.
The Examples section contains examples using the procedure.
The References section contains references for the methodology and examples for the procedure.

Following the chapters on the SAS/STAT procedures, Appendix A, "Special SAS Data Sets," documents the special SAS data sets associated with SAS/STAT procedures.

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