st: Re:collapse update

[baum <baum@bc.edu>]

--On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:33 -0400 Alejandro wrote:

> I'm collapsing the standard deviation for a set of variables (monthly
> frequency):
>
> collapse (sd) er rer, by(country_name year)
>
> but if for example one country doesn't have data for all the year, i'm
> getting a 0 instead of a missing value after doing the collapse, do you
> know how can i solve this ?
>
> Alejandro Riano
I identified this disagreeable behavior earlier this summer, and StataCorp 
fixed it in the 2 August 2002 update, as 'help whatsnew' will show in an 
up-to-date Stata.

Kit
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