Sas-Lers:

Is there a Lead function (analagous to Lag function) in SAS? I have always had to work with the time period to pull the leading observation. I use SAS version 8.2. The data is set in a panel data format with multiple observations for each company and several hundred companies for each year.

thanks

ramu

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