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Mainstage Variable

lewght

longitudinal enumerated individual weigh

Datafile

indsamp

Index term

Sampling Factors

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.31	0	0	2.5	0.53	26403

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.31	0	0	2.5	0.53	26845

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.32	0	0	2.5	0.53	27160

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.31	0	0	2.5	0.53	28011

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.32	0	0	2.5	0.53	28490

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.32	0	0	2.5	0.53	29028

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.32	0	0	2.5	0.53	29294

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.31	0	0	2.5	0.52	31458

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.38	0	0	2.5	0.55	25967

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.41	0	0	2.5	0.55	24553

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.59	0	0	2.5	0.57	17461

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.58	0	0	2.5	0.57	18073

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.69	0	0	2.5	0.55	15659

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.71	3	0	2.5	0.54	15753

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.74	0	0	2.5	0.53	15903

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.76	0	0	2.5	0.51	16110

Mean	Number Missing	Min	Max	Std Dev	N
0.87	1	0	2.5	0.44	15212

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