I wrote:
>From the postings on the SAS listserver this week (see below), it seems that
>SAS does behave as Richard wishes Stata to.
Whoops! Apparently not. (SAS codes missing values as the smallest possible
value, while Stata codes them as the largest.)
Perhaps, for consistency, Stata ought to include missing categories in
-tabulate- by default . . .
Joseph Coveney
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From: Peter Flom ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Suggestions made at SUGI
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.sas
Date: 2004-06-04 06:20:26 PST
Since we're talking about missiing values, one thing that irritates me
is that of missings being INCLUDED by accident when one does something
like
if AGE < 21 then CHILD = 1; else CHILD = 0;
I was seriously burned once by this, and have (embarassingly) made the
same mistake again, although I caught it......
So, SAS seems to think that a categorical variable which has no
response should be thrown away, but that a numeric one should be
included......
and it doesn't think we need warnings about any of this.....
Peter
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