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Re: st: Drop observations with multiple zero values
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Drop observations with multiple zero values
Date
Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:06:11 -0400
tempvar r
egen `r'=rowtotal(A B C)
drop if `r'==0
missings are treated as zeroes and things get more complicated if any
of the vars may contain negatives.
Best, Sergiy
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:02 PM, G. Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know how I can drop observations if a number of values are
> zero?
>
> I can do this by manually inputting
> drop if( A==0 & B==0 & C==0)
> But I was wondering if there was any easier way of doing this (especially
> when I have a lot of variables)- perhaps using varlist somehow?
>
>
> Many Thanks,
>
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