Dear Friedrich,
Thanks very much. Exactly what I was looking for.
Ian
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 1:23:29 PM, you wrote:
FH> Ian,
FH> You can use -dropmiss-.
FH> . findit dropmiss
FH> Friedrich Huebler
FH> --- Ian Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> My particular task is to eliminate all variables from the dataset
>> which are empty, that is, have no observations. The following bit
>> of code has done this, but surely there is a simpler way which I
>> have overlooked?
>>
>> local droplist "drop "
>> foreach v of varlist * {
>> qui count if !mi(`v')
>> if r(N) == 0 local droplist "`droplist' `v'"
>> }
>> `droplist'
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>> Ian
>>
>> -------------------------------
>> Ian Watson
>> Senior Researcher
>> acirrt, University of Sydney
>> NSW, 2006, Australia
>>
>> phone: 02 9351 5622
>> email:[email protected]
>> www.acirrt.com
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