TY - BOOK ID - 4861834 TI - Practical Business Analytics Using SAS : A Hands-on Guide AU - Kadre, Shailendra. AU - Konasani, Venkat Reddy. PY - 2015 SN - 9781484200438 1484200446 9781484200445 1484200438 PB - Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, DB - UniCat KW - Computer Science. KW - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. KW - Computer science. KW - Data mining. KW - Informatique KW - Exploration de données (Informatique) KW - Business planning KW - Big data KW - SAS (Computer program language) KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Computer Science KW - Statistical methods KW - Strategic planning KW - Decision making KW - System analysis KW - SAS (Computer file) KW - Network theory KW - Systems analysis KW - Deciding KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision processes KW - Making decisions KW - Management KW - Management decisions KW - Goal setting (Strategic planning) KW - Planning, Strategic KW - Strategic intent (Strategic planning) KW - Strategic management KW - Business enterprises KW - Business plans KW - Corporate planning KW - Corporate strategy KW - Corporations KW - Strategy, Corporate KW - Planning KW - Statistical analysis system KW - SAS system KW - Algorithmic knowledge discovery KW - Factual data analysis KW - KDD (Information retrieval) KW - Knowledge discovery in data KW - Knowledge discovery in databases KW - Mining, Data KW - Database searching KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Network analysis KW - Network science KW - System theory KW - Mathematical optimization KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Problem solving UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4861834 AB - Practical Business Analytics Using SAS: A Hands-on Guide shows SAS users and businesspeople how to analyze data effectively in real-life business scenarios. The book begins with an introduction to analytics, analytical tools, and SAS programming. The authors—both SAS, statistics, analytics, and big data experts—first show how SAS is used in business, and then how to get started programming in SAS by importing data and learning how to manipulate it. Besides illustrating SAS basic functions, you will see how each function can be used to get the information you need to improve business performance. Each chapter offers hands-on exercises drawn from real business situations. The book then provides an overview of statistics, as well as instruction on exploring data, preparing it for analysis, and testing hypotheses. You will learn how to use SAS to perform analytics and model using both basic and advanced techniques like multiple regression, logistic regression, and time series analysis, among other topics. The book concludes with a chapter on analyzing big data. Illustrations from banking and other industries make the principles and methods come to life. Readers will find just enough theory to understand the practical examples and case studies, which cover all industries. Written for a corporate IT and programming audience that wants to upgrade skills or enter the analytics field, this book includes: More than 200 examples and exercises, including code and datasets for practice. Relevant examples for all industries. Case studies that show how to use SAS analytics to identify opportunities, solve complicated problems, and chart a course. Practical Business Analytics Using SAS: A Hands-on Guide gives you the tools you need to gain insight into the data at your fingertips, predict business conditions for better planning, and make excellent decisions. Whether you are in retail, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, government, or any other industry, this book will help your organization increase revenue, drive down costs, improve marketing, and satisfy customers better than ever before. ER -