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Re: st: total() returns zero if all missing in long-format data
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: total() returns zero if all missing in long-format data
Date
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:32:17 +0100
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Shehzad Ali <[email protected]> wrote:
> In long-format data structure (multiple obs per id), the total() function returns zero if all values of the variable for a particular id are missing. Can anyone suggest the best way to ensure that the total returns missing when all values are missing for a particular id?
>
> bysort id: egen total = total(var1)
The answer is in the helpfile of -egen-.
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