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Re: st: Excluding missing values


From   Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Excluding missing values
Date   Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:13:18 -0400

Stata allows up to 27 missing value codes (.a, .b, etc., as well as .); the other 26 are considered to be "higher" than .; so your second choice (!=.) would eliminate missing when coded as . but not when coded as .a, etc.

Rich

Tunga Kantarci wrote:

To exclude missing values, stata help indiactes one should use
<.

However,
!=.

also works.

In which situation the second command would be faulty?
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