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| From | Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: Drop observations with multiple zero values |
| Date | Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:13:11 -0400 |
see the other post then for negatives On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:10 PM, G. Anderson <ga274@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Thanks a lot Sergiy > > This is helpful, although some of the variables do contain negatives > unfortunately! > > > > On Jun 7 2013, Sergiy Radyakin wrote: > >> 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 <ga274@cam.ac.uk> 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, >>> >>> Gareth * >>> * For searches and help try: >>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >> >> * >> * For searches and help try: >> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >> > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/