Partial Discrete Occasion Effect

A Partial Discrete Occasion Effect is selected by the menu selections FillCol | Occasion Effect | Partial Discrete choices in the design matrix. The current column plus enough additional columns are filled with a discrete occasion effect. 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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After the cells are filled, the matrix would look like the following, with an occasion effect in rows 1 through 4 in columns 4 through 7.

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