Practical Business Analytics using SAS: A Hands-On Guide

Venkat Reddy Konasani, Shailendra Kadre

ISBN: 9788132232605

576 pages

Description

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.

About the Author

Venkat Reddy is a post graduate in applied statistics and informatics technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT ) Mumbai.

Shailendra Kadre is a senior IT and management consultant from Bangalore

Table of Contents

Part One: Basics of SAS Programming for Analytics

Introduction to Business Analytics and Data Analysis Tools
SAS Introduction
SAS Handling Using SAS
Important SAS Functions and Procs

Part Two: Using SAS for Business Analytics

Introduction to Statistical Analysis
Basic Descriptive Statistics
Data Exploration, Validation and Data Sanitization
Testing of Hypothesis
Correlation and Linear Regression
Multiple Regression Analysis
Logistic Regression
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Introducing Big Data Analytics