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Re: st: how to cope with missings in my case


From   "Svend Juul" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: how to cope with missings in my case
Date   Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:13:48 +0200

Xiangping JIA wants to add some variables, but when one is missing the
sum becomes missing.

This is standard behavior. However, egen's rowtotal() function does the
trick (in Stata 8 the name is rsum().

clear
input index var1 var2 var3
  1  .  1  1
  2  1  1  .
  3  .  1  1
end
generate var4=var1+var2+var3
egen var5=rowtotal(var1-var3)

. list

      +------------------------------------------+
      | index   var1   var2   var3   var4   var5 |
      |------------------------------------------|
   1. |     1      .      1      1      .      2 |
   2. |     2      1      1      .      .      2 |
   3. |     3      .      1      1      .      2 |
      +------------------------------------------+

Hope this helps
Svend
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