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Re: st: can I replace with missing value with 0?


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: can I replace with missing value with 0?
Date   Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:21:20 +0100

You could but that would be a bad idea. If sales are known to be zero
or negative, then a logarithmic transformation is not a good idea in
the first place. (A logarithm of 0 corresponds to sales of 1.)
Nick
[email protected]


On 19 August 2013 22:47, Ken Ning <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi statausers
>
> If I am using a formula taking ln(sales) (e.g the formula--[ ln (sales
> t)-ln(sales t-1) ] ) and for some years sales is zero or negative, is
> there an accepted way to retain the observations for those years? For
> example can you just repalce the missing result with 0.
>
> year sales    log value
> 2001 10010    9.21134
> 2002 10020    9.212338
> 2003 30010     10.30929
> 2004    0          missing  (replace with 0?)
> 2005 14010       9.547527
> 2006 10555       9.264355
> 2007 70010      11.15639
> 2008 -200     missing (replace with 0?)
>
> Many thanks
> Ken
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