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Re: st: sum up many variables with missing values across columns
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James Sams <[email protected]>
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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.
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James Sams
[email protected]
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