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st: RE: RE: Using 2 vars to make 1 in presence of missing


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Using 2 vars to make 1 in presence of missing
Date   Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:49:59 +0100

Also 

gen c = cond(a == ., b, a) 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Maarten Buis
 
> gen c = a
> replace c = b if c==.

SamL 

>  I have two variables, a and b, and 1.5 datasets, A and B.  
> All cases in B are in A, but some cases
> in A are not in B.  I want to merge the two datasets, 
> matching on the id.
> 
> Variable a is missing for some cases in A, but the same 
> variable has valid
> values for some of those cases in B (as b).
> 
> I have tried several approaches.  What I want is:
> 
> do if (a ne .)
> compute c=a
> else if (b ne .)
> compute c=b
> else
> compute c=.
> end if
> 

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