st: Re: missing values nightmare

[evan roberts <eroberts@hist.umn.edu>]

By way of making the point that this is a feature--not a bug--SAS 
considers all missing values to be less than the negative numbers. As 
with Stata it is considerably easier for programming purposes that 
logic be consistently two-way, provided you know what your missing 
data codes or values are.


> At 05:46 PM 10/3/2006, Diego Bassani wrote:
>
> > Is it possible that no one noticed this? And if yes, why did stata
> > not fix it yet?
> It is a feature, not a bug.  A lively discussion of this began with
> the thread at
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-01/msg00121.html
>
> My own "If I ruled the world" preference is given at
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-01/msg00136.html
>
> But, since I don't rule the world, I've learned to live with Stata's
> way of doing things.  It really isn't too hard to humor Stata on this
> and it would be far too hard for Stata to change now.

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Evan Roberts
Minnesota Population Center and Department of History
University of Minnesota
eroberts@pop.umn.edu
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