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MEANING: Continuation (CONT) data item for PREDPP
CONTEXT: $INPUT record and NONMEM data set
USAGE:
$INPUT ... CONT ...
DISCUSSION:
CONT labels PREDPP's continuation (CONT) data item. The continuation
data item is optional. The CONT data item allows a PREDPP event
record to span several data records. It is useful when more than NON- |
MEM's maximum number of data items per record are needed to describe a |
single event. When the CONT data item is not defined on the $INPUT
record, every event record consists of a single data record.
Values are:
0 This is the last or only data record of the event record.
1 This and the succeeding record are both members of the same event
record. MDV must be 1.
PREDPP ignores records having CONT=1, except to pass them to the PK
and ERROR routines as part of the complete event record. Values of
PREDPP data items such as EVID, AMT, etc., are significant only on the
final record of each event record, i.e., on records having CONT=0.
With NM-TRAN abbreviated code, values on data records having CONT=1
are not available for use as right-hand quantities, i.e., abbreviated
code cannot reference the values in data records other than the last
of each event record. (It would be possible to reference such values
using verbatim code, however). When NM-TRAN performs time translation
or ii conversion, it does so only for the event records having CONT=0.
(See date, time, ii).
REFERENCES: Guide VI Section II, V.A, V.I
REFERENCES: Guide IV Section V.B, V.C.5
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