st: keeping inventory while cleaning data

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>]

Hello, in order to keep inventory while cleaning data, I'm using a 
clumsy manual step to keep track of how many observations I drop. For 
example:

. describe, short	//INVENTORY: dropped 28097 for histology not 
NSCLC; N = 51,560

Is there a more elegant way to do this that could give me a summary 
list of variables dropped & the reason for drop?

Thank you.

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Best wishes,
Michael McCulloch



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