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Re: st: Drop observations with multiple zero values


From   "G. Anderson" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Drop observations with multiple zero values
Date   07 Jun 2013 21:32:59 +0100

Sorry- didn't see this. Thank you.

Is there any way to standardise the process so I can use a varlist and do not have to manually count the number of variables in that list?




On Jun 7 2013, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:

for negatives you can use
tempvar r
egen `r'=anycount(A B C),values(0)
drop if `r'==3

where 3 is the number of variables in your varlist specified in the
anycount function.
Sergiy

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
tempvar r
egen `r'=rowtotal(A B C)
drop if `r'==0

missings are treated as zeroes and things get more complicated if any
of the vars may contain negatives.
Best, Sergiy

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:02 PM, G. Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,

Does anybody know how I can drop observations if a number of values are
zero?

I can do this by manually inputting drop if( A==0 & B==0 & C==0) But I was wondering if there was any easier way of doing this (especially when I have a lot of variables)- perhaps using varlist somehow?


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