Answer / Rahul Harshawardhan

To assign first.VAR and last.VAR to the BY group variable on unsorted data, you can use the FIRSTOBS and LASTOBS system options or the _N_ automatic variable. You may also consider sorting the data after reading it into SAS before performing the analysis.

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