st: RE: RE: Replacing the missing observations

["Gokhan Yilmaz" <yilmag@rpi.edu>]

Thanks Dr. Cox,

I ran the command as you suggested and read the FAQ. However, I could not
figure out why it worked for only some of the time values. It replaced a
zero for the ewdiffret instead of the actual values in 2007m6 through
2007m12 and 2008m2. I had tsset the data but I also tried it after "tsset,
clear" and the same thing happened.  For the other time values it worked
perfectly. Also it may seem like I am trying to replace for only one
observation in a given month but indeed there are around 345 observations
for each month to be replace with the same ewdiffret value in that given
month.


group	time   ewportret   ewdiffret
0	2007m4	.041679	
1	2007m4	.0375245	-.0041545
0	2007m5	.0449738	
1	2007m5	.0397919	-.0051819
0	2007m6	-.0240277	
1	2007m6	-.0188678	.0051599
0	2007m7	-.064496	
1	2007m7	-.0456775	.0188185
0	2007m8	.0023347	
1	2007m8	.0104131	.0080783
0	2007m9	.0237398	
1	2007m9	.0209782	-.0027617
0	2007m10	-.0086541	
1	2007m10	.0190929	.0277471
0	2007m11	-.0589931	
1	2007m11	-.0399782	.0190149
0	2007m12	-.0302353	
1	2007m12	-.0077903	.022445
0	2008m1	-.0117908	
1	2008m1	-.0418619	-.0300711
0	2008m2	-.0362031	
1	2008m2	-.0311441	.0050591
0	2008m3	.0164306	
1	2008m3	-.0015971	-.0180278

Regards,

Gokhan

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
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Subject: st: RE: Replacing the missing observations

This is an FAQ. 

FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Replacing missing
values
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J.
Cox
        9/05    How can I replace missing values with previous or
                following nonmissing values or within sequences?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/missing.html

In this example 

bysort time (ewdiffret) : replace ewdiffret = ewdiffret[1] 

Note that -replace- is a command (not a function). 

would work. 

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

yilmag@rpi.edu

group	time	ewportret	ewdiffret

0	2007m4	.041679	             .
1	2007m4	.0375245	-.0041545
0	2007m5	.0449738	     .
1	2007m5	.0397919	-.0051819
0	2007m6	-.0240277	     .
1	2007m6	-.0188678	.0051599

The variable ewdiffret is the difference in ewportret between group 1 and
group 0 for each time variable (thanks to Dr. Cox for the help with this).
My question is how can i now replace all empty cells under the ewdiffret in
the same month with the single ewdiffret value in that given month. Indeed i
have too many empty cells in a given month and i want to replace them all
with the single ewdiffret i have for that month.

For example: I would like to have the first empty cell under ewdiffret equal
to -.0041545 as the time variable for both is 2007m4 and the second empty
cell equal to -.0051819 as their time variable is 2007m5. Using too many
replace functions takes a long time and may cause transcription errors.

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