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Re: st: anycount .a and .b


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: anycount .a and .b
Date   Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:17:43 +0100

gen a_missing = var1 == .a
gen b_missing = var1 == .b

qui forval j = 2/600 {
      replace a_missing = a_missing + (var`j' == .a)
      replace b_missing = b_missing + (var`j' == .b)
}


On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Jörg Eulenberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a dataset with ".a" ".b" and "." missings. Now i want  count the
> missing row wise (observation wise) like
>
> egen a_missing = anycount(var1-var600), values(.a)
> egen b_missing = anycount(var1-var600), values(.b)
>
> The Problem is that ".a" ".b" don't  be elements of integer numlist.
>  rowmiss count all missings and make not differences between .a .b and .
>

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