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| From | James Sams <sams.james@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: sum up many variables with missing values across columns |
| Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:12:05 -0500 |
On Monday, September 19, 2011, you wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to sum up say 100 variables across columns, but many of > the 100 variables have missing values. And I want the sum to be > missing if any of the 100 variables is missing. -rowtotal- does not > work because it treats missing values as 0; even with the option -, > missing-, it generates a missing value only when all the 100 variables > are missing. The user written program egenmore has a function rowsum2 which has the option anymiss which I believe does what you want. -- James Sams sams.james@gmail.com * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/