Re: st: Data manipulation question

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 10:00 AM 11/14/2003 +0100, you wrote:

> Dear listers.
>
> I have discovered errors in my dataset, and it seems some of my data are 
> recorded in the wrong variable. The variable the data should have been 
> recorded as, is left missing. A few examples: (Missing values marked as "")
My advice isn't real helpful, but how big is the dataset?  For one-shot 
tasks, I've found more than once that it is easier and more reliable just 
to do things by hand than to try to write a complicated program to do 
things for me.  If it is a few hundred records, it wouldn't seem that hard 
to hand-fix, if several thousand then a program becomes more worth the trouble.


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