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st: RE: RE: sample size reduced significantly
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"David Radwin" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: RE: sample size reduced significantly
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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:51:54 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, this is called listwise deletion. You also can count the number of
observations with one or covariates with missing values:
. count if missing(var1, var2, var3, etc)
or the number of observations with no missing values:
. count if !missing(var1, var2, var3, etc)
David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Arya Eskamani
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: sample size reduced significantly
>
> In your explanatory variables, do you have any rows that with a missing
> field? When you run an OLS it only runs on observations for which all
> data is available.
>
> Try seeing if you do by using -codebook [varname]- , it will tell you if
> it holds any missing values. Hope this helps :)
>
> Arya Eskamani, M.S.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Yu Chen, PhD
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:17 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: sample size reduced significantly
>
> Dear Statalist,
> I have several variables with each of them having at least 6000
> observations (non-missing values). However, when I put them into OLS
> regression, the number of observations reduced to only about 1000. I
> cannot figure out what causes the problem. Could you please help me find
> out the causes? What code can I use to analyze the problem?
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Yu Chen
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