Yes, thank you.
Eldon
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Caleb Southworth wrote:
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Eldon Spackman wrote:
:You could replace missing values with the value 0.
:Eldon
That is a poor practice. Zero often has real meaning. Changing missing
to zero will alter the mean, if that were important. cf -mvencode- and
-mvdecode-
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