Re: st: Sum of variables with missing values

[Eldon Spackman <spackman@u.washington.edu>]

You could replace missing values with the value 0.
Eldon

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 mmolina@uniroma3.it wrote:

> Dear statalist,
> I have to make this operation:
> gen capscore= quality+newequip+intrd+skilltrai+skilled+edu+traiprog
> I have several missing values in the different variables.
> I would like to proceed with the sum (forgetting missing values), what may
> I do?
> For instance, if I have one of the 7 variables that have missing values, I
> woul like to see the result of the sum of the other 6.
> Thanks and regards,
> Alejandra Molina
>
>
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