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st: RE: one last question


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: one last question
Date   Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:48:54 -0000

Rodrigo Brice�o
>
> Stata Listers: if one merges two databases, but one
> database has registers
> or observations that are not in the other, this result in
> some missings for
> observations that already has information. Could I avoid this?

I am not clear what kind of answer you expect.

In this situation, you can avoid having observations
with missing data by (1) estimating non-missing values
instead of missing (2) -drop-ping observations with any
missing values. Both can be intensely problematic.

Nick
[email protected]

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