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Re: st: Missing Values


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Missing Values
Date   Wed, 8 Jan 2014 10:45:35 +0000

I'm confused. There are posts appearing from

Sadia Khalid

and

Muhammad Ramzan

1. If you are one person using two email addresses, please don't do
that. Statalist has a strong principle that people use their full real
names. Using someone else's name violates that.

2. If you are two people looking at the same problem, please make that clear.

Use a -foreach- loop to loop over a set of variables.

Nick
[email protected]


On 8 January 2014 10:36, Muhammad Ramzan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks a lot
>
> Nick Cox
>
> If i want to run this command for all the variables in the data set.
> any code for this.
>
>
> On 8 January 2014 02:19, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> <>
>>
>> If that really is the error message, you are typing
>>
>> seq
>>
>> where you mean
>>
>> _seq
>>
>> i.e. you are not typing the command you need.
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>> On 8 January 2014 03:16, Sadia Khalid <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks a lot for the reply
>>>
>>> I am getting an error for this command
>>>
>>> egen max = max(_seq), by(company _spell)
>>>
>>> The error message is "seq not found"
>>>
>>> Please look at this issue.
>>
>> On 7 January 2014 23:22, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> That's not what you said, but it makes more sense. Here is some technique:
>>>>
>>>> First, you show no data, so we need a sandpit to play in:
>>>>
>>>> webuse grunfeld, clear
>>>> set seed 2803
>>>> replace invest = . if runiform() < 0.7
>>>>
>>>> Download -tsspell- from SSC and then identify spells of missing values:
>>>>
>>>> tsspell , c(missing(invest))
>>>>
>>>> The length of each spell is an easy calculation
>>>>
>>>> egen max = max(_seq), by(company _spell)
>>>>
>>>> Then any interpolation is made conditional:
>>>>
>>>> by company: ipolate invest year if max <= 5, gen(invest2)
>>>>
>>>> For explanation of the _principles_ of identifying spells, see
>>>>
>>>> SJ-7-2  dm0029  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Identifying spells
>>>>         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
>>>>         Q2/07   SJ 7(2):249--265                                 (no commands)
>>>>         shows how to handle spells with complete control over
>>>>         spell specification
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0029
>>
>> On 7 January 2014 17:37, Sadia Khalid <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>>> I only want to fill in the missing values if the no of missing values
>>>>> are equal to or less than 5. if 5 or more values are missing than do
>>>>> not fill in the missing values.
>>
>> On 7 January 2014 22:31, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> So 5 is OK for interpolation, but 4 or 6 isn't? Sounds bizarre.
>>
>> On 7 January 2014 17:22, Sadia Khalid <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> I have read about your code for filling the in between missing values
>>>>>>> at http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-05/msg00247.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I want the code that fill the missing values only if 5 inbetween
>>>>>>> values are missing.
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>
>
> --
> Assalam-o-Alaikum
>
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>
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>
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>
> Muhammad Ramzan
> Lecturer (Economics)
> Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
> Islamabad
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