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Re: st: Missing observations
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Csaba <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Missing observations
Date
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:41:06 +0200
Nick,
Thank you for your reply. Yes you are right I muddled up observations with values. I meant to write values not observations. My problem is that if I use 'drop if missing(var2)' that will drop values for each variable in my data set.
I need to compare the means/medians of 2 variables. Var1 has 1125 non-missing values, var2 has 169 non-missing values. I might be doing sth wrong but when I try using bootstrapping I get a message saying that I should drop any missing values as bootstrapping cannot distinguish between missing and non-missing values. That's why I want to drop missing values for Var2. Basically, I want to achieve the same result as with the unpaired two-sample mean comparison test but with bootstrapping.
Thanks a lot!
On 20 Jun 2013, at 12:32, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> -drop- as used here drops entire observations (outside Stata
> observations are known as rows, cases, records). You seem to be under
> the impression that there is an operation
>
> drop missing values
>
> that is somehow different from
>
> -drop- observations
>
> but I don't know what that would look like.
>
> In your example if -var2- has only 169 non-missing values (_not_
> observations) then
>
> drop if missing(var2)
>
> will leave precisely 169 observations. I don't understand how that is
> a surprise or what else you want.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 20 June 2013 11:17, Csaba Kertai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I need a bit of help with dropping missing observations. If I use 'drop if missing(var)' or drop if 'var'==. etc. many other observations are dropped as well. More precisely, var1 has 1125 observations and var2 has 169 observations. I want to drop missing observations for var2 but if I use drop if var2==. then this will keep only 169 observations for each variable. I only want to drop values that are missing.
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