st: Re: List Observations with Missing Values

["Joseph Coveney" <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>]

Lisa Wang wrote:

I would like to learn why this is not valid as I get this back from
Stata ">=:  operator invalid r(198)" If I read the help file for that
return code it tells me that the syntax might be incorrectly
specified??

- list c_c e_o e_c if >=. , separator(0) N notrim absolute -

I thought that missing values are represented as a dot in Stata. I
just want Stata to list out all the observations where there are
missing values for those three variables, so I can check, before I
drop these rows with missing observations.

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The comparison operator needs two arguments, as in:

list if x >= .  


Try something like the following:

generate byte all_missing = 1
foreach var of varlist c_c e_o e_c {
    replace all_missing = 0 if !missing(`var')
}
list c_c e_o e_c if all_missing, separator(0) N notrim absolute

Joseph Coveney


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