o remove this restriction. If required, users may directly add positivity edits for individual variables.</p></td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>by</p></td>
<td><p>str</p></td>
<td><p>Variable(s) used to partition indata into by-groups for independent processing. <br><br> Deterministic imputation will be the same with and without by-group use. <br><br> Example: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">by</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">&quot;province</span> <span c