Re: st: How to specify a data entry to be NA

[Ronnie Babigumira <rb.glists@gmail.com>]

That should be out of the feasible range for the variable
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On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Ronnie Babigumira wrote:

> Hi Xianwen
> If the variable is numeric you cannot enter NA. 
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> You could do either of two things, assign a value (or of the feasible range for the variable, i.e, if all values are positive, then you could assign -7 as NA) or use one of Stata's 27 numeric missing values. 
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> See -help missing- for more on Stata's missing values
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> hope this helps,
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> Ronnie 
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> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Xianwen Chen wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to specify some entries in a data set to be NA (not available).
> > Stata does not seem to allow a specification as
> > 
> > replace foo = NA if _n == bar
> > 
> > . Can someone tell me the correct to specify a data entry to be NA?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Xianwen
> > *
> > * For searches and help try:
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> > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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