st: Re: missing data

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

In principle, -mvdecode- is the answer. 

In practice, watch out for precision problems: 
see [U] 16.10 Precision and problems therein. 

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Nain, Amrita

I have data from a source that uses -0.001 as a flag 
for missing information. How do I make Stata treat all 
such variables as missing? Is there an easy way to 
replace all -0.001s with dots

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

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