If you want to drop the set of variables where the values are all missing,
perhaps because of issues importing them from another data format, you
might use Nick Cox's -dropmiss- from SSC.
. ssc install dropmiss
David
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mosi Ifatunji
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 8:30 AM
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> Subject: st: Dropping all missing values
>
> Friends,
>
> I am at the final stage of dataset preparation and would like to
> remove all missing values. I know that I can drop all missing values
> with the following syntax:
>
> drop x1 if == .
> drop x2 if == .
>
> But, because I am going to have quite a few variables in the final
> dataset, I would prefer as short a command syntax as possible. Of
> course the goals of such an exercise is to ensure that all of my
> analysis for this study is based on the same cases.
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> Mosi
>
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