Re: st: My last word on strange world

[Jos� Maria Pacheco de Souza <jmpsouza@usp.br>]

My first word in a not mine world:
Elegant and good humoured.
Jos� Maria

Jose Maria Pacheco de Souza, Professor Titular (aposentado)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Elliott" <dcelliott@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: st: My last word on strange world



> I suggest we assign everyone's first last word to .a, the second last
> word to .b, the third to .c and so on...
>
> I, for one, have found this entire discussion fascinating and I have
> learned a fair bit about some implications of missing values I had not
> sufficiently appreciated previously.  I will be much more rigorous in
> coding practices to include & !mi(x) in my if statements in the
> future.
>
> I wonder if it would be helpful to give some additional thought to
> documentation in the -help missing- section to discuss some of the
> implications and "best practices" around the handling of missings that
> is not self-evident just from reading the technical details.  While
> some users would prefer not to have warnings about missings that are
> included in if x>42, perhaps Stata could have a -set nanny on- option
> that would give increased warnings in situations known to be potential
> problem areas for users.  Nanny mode might make sure more of us wore
> our hats and mittens on cold days...
>
> DC Elliott
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