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st: -isvar- and -nmissing- on SSC


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: -isvar- and -nmissing- on SSC
Date   Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:08:06 +0100

Thanks to Kit Baum, one new package, -isvar-, 
and one old package revisited, -nmissing-, 
are now downloadable from SSC. 

Each requires Stata 8 (and so will work 
in Stata 9 too). 

The posting of these packages arises from 
a recent thread started by Amadou Diallo. 

-isvar- takes a list of names and divides
them into those that are variable names in 
the current dataset and those that aren't. 
This may be useful if you want to know all
at once which of various names are indeed 
variable names, and then to work with those. 

The purpose of -nmissing- is to count and report 
the number missing, either in variables 
(the default) or in observations, that is, 
either column-wise or row-wise. Optimists
who prefer to regard the glass as half-full,
not half-empty, can use the complementary 
program -npresent- in the same package. 

The -nmissing- package was first published 
in STB-49 in 1999 and then updated in the 
Stata Journal in 2001 and 2003. The 
latest update converts the program to 
rclass so that r(varlist) is left behind 
in memory, in case it might be useful. 
This update arises from a question from 
Eric (Ric) Uslaner some time ago. 

The update will be published formally
in the Stata Journal 5(4) in December, 
subject to editorial approval, which 
I guess is likely. However, as the 
topic is timely, Kit has agreed to host
the package on SSC for the time being. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

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