Thanks for pointing this out -- I think I have been needlessly coding around a non-problem.
EGW
>A key point about missing values is that in Stata
>
>max(large known number, missing)
>
>is always "large known number". This may
>come as a surprise once you have learned
>the hard way that in Stata numeric missing
>is treated as higher than any non-missing
>number. But usually it is a feature. What
>do you want
>
>max(0, 1, 2.71828, 3.14159, 42, .)
>
>to return? 42 or . ?
>
>Nick
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