Yap Keng Loong wrote
> i am new to stata and having some trouble on recoding
> values to take account of missing values in the data
> set.
.. replace varname = x if varname == .
Note also that missing in Stata is plus infinity. Therefore
.. replace varname = x if varname >= y
would set varname to x even for observations with missings on varname.
regards
uli
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