RE: st: Sample command question

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 09:10 PM 10/29/2006, David McClintick wrote:
> Actually, I just realized that your suggestion isn't going to work. As I
> am generating a sample based on each variable, and I have different
> amounts of missing values for each variable, your command would drop all
> observations that had any missing value for any one of the variables. I
> only want to drop observations for that particular sample when missing
> in that particular variable.
All the loops sort of confuse me so you may be right!  But I guess I 
don't see how that happens if the code is something like

local i=1
foreach x in var1-var91 {
         while `i' <=10 {
                 use c:\ado\personal\easy.dta
                keep if !missing(`x')
                 sample 5, count
                 save mewsample`i', replace
                 local i= `i' +1
}
}

You open a file, drop cases with MD on 1 variable, sample and save as 
a new file, and then reopen the original file and repeat the process 
for a total of 10 times, and then move on to a different x.

In any event, I am guessing that some sort of keep if statement 
should be in there, even if I don't have the right one.

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