Chapter 20. Creating a Single Observation from Multiple Records

Overview

Introduction

Information for one observation can be spread out over several records. You can write multiple INPUT statements to read each record that comprises a single observation, as in this example:

input Lname $ 1-8 Fname $ 10-15; ...

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