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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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--- On Mon, 12/10/09, Francesco Trivieri wrote:
> when I drop some observations by writing:
> 1) drop if x>123
> Stata drops also the missing values of the x
> variable. When I use the following
> 2) drop if x>123 & x!=.
> Stata does not drop the missing values
> As missing values are discarded in any estimations, Stata
> should consider the same obsevations whather command I use
> (1 or 2). By constrast, the number of obsevations is
> much smaller when I run a regression after using the command
> 1)
Stata ignores observations with missing values on x only when
you use it in your estimation, so which command you use will
matter if your estimation command is something like
-regress z w z- (so, no x) .
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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