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Re: st: How to specify a data entry to be NA
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Xianwen Chen <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to specify a data entry to be NA
Date
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:28:58 -0600
That helps a lot. Thank you very much Ronnie :-)
Xianwen
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ronnie Babigumira <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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,
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>> > I want to specify some entries in a data set to be NA (not available).
>> > Stata does not seem to allow a specification as
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>> > replace foo = NA if _n == bar
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>> > . Can someone tell me the correct to specify a data entry to be NA?
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>> > Thanks.
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>> > Xianwen
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