![Can you Lag and Lead at the same time? If using the SAS DATA step, yes you can](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/02/ProblemSolvers.jpg)
Within the SAS DATA step, the LAG function is provided to return a variable’s value from a previous data set observation. With certain data criteria, sometimes there is a need to look ahead at the next observation and you would expect to use a LEAD function, but this does not