A Discrete Occasion Effect is selected by the menu selections FillCol, Occasion Effect, Discrete choices. The current column plus enough additional columns are filled with a discrete occasion effect, repeated as necessary to fill the columns. As an example, suppose the following design matrix is on the screen, consisting of all zeros, and there are 4 re-encounter occasions. The cursor is in the highlighted (underlined) cell.
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
After the cells are filled, the matrix would look like the following, with occasion effects in columns 5 through 8.
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0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |