RE: st: Replace missing values by 0

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I have one specific and one general comment here. 

Specifically, Martin is correct to underline that . is not the only missing value, but the loop in question is easily fixed by 

foreach x of varlist prean pa_kurn{
  replace `x' = 0 if missing(x) 
}

Generally, a minimal -search missing- points to several resources. One of the very first entries, to [I] missing values, answers this question comprehensively, so it is difficult to see why it was felt necessary to send it to Statalist. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Martin Weiss
============

Stata even forgives the missing blank after -if-! Amazing!

*************
clear*
inp prean pa_kurn
2 3
. 5
. 3
. .
4 5
end
foreach x of varlist prean pa_kurn{
  replace `x' = 0 if(`x' == .)
}
l
*************


One problem with this "first-principles" approach is that you have to compare explicitly with all missing values, i.e. also the extended ones.
-recode- can help avoid this problem.

Neil Shephard
=============

foreach x of varlist prean pa_kurn{
  replace `x' = 0 if(`x' == .)
}

...is one way to skin this cat.



Martin Weiss
============

clear*
input myvar
1
3
5
.
3
6
7
end

recode myvar (mis = 0)
l


Tirthankar Chakravarty

-mvencode-

Tobias Friedli

> I have two variabled called "prean" and "pa_kum" that contain missing values.
> These missing values i would like to replace by 0 (zero). What command can i
> use to do this?

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