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st: Deleteing all observations for individuals with anomalous data


From   Murray Lowe <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Deleteing all observations for individuals with anomalous data
Date   Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:51:18 +0100

Hi,

I am new to Statalist, hope someone can help me!

I am working with a large dataset and have discovered that some of the data
are missing values or have erroneous values. The data is panel data with
observations per individual over a 5 year period. For example:

ID	Year	Cost

1	1	100
1	2	200	
1	3	500
1	4	150
1	5	x
2	1	100	
2	2	200	
2	3	500
2	4	600
2	5	100

The problem is this: If an individual has a missing / erroneous value for a
particular year, I want to exclude ALL of their observations from the
dataset. In the example patient 1 would be removed from the dataset
entirely. How can this be done through an automated-type process?
Essentially I need a code / method that looks for the anomalous data;
identifies the patient and then removes all of their observations from the
dataset.

Hope you can help,

Murray Lowe


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