Re: st: Sample command question

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 07:48 PM 10/29/2006, David McClintick wrote:
> I have the written the following code to run a sample command on each
> one of my variables:
>
> local i=1
> foreach x in var1-var91 {
>         while `i' <=10 {
>                 use c:\ado\personal\easy.dta
>                 sample 5, count
>                 save mewsample`i', replace
>                 local i= `i' +1
> }
> }
>
> However, I have a problem because there are missing values in each list,
> and my random samples often return a missing value as one of their 5
> terms. What's the best way to exclude missing values from the sample
> generation?
Before the sample command, could you have something like

keep if !missing(`x')


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