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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  20
 data  items 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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