I don't know what you are doing downstream
of this, but some commands will accept non-integers
even when the variables "should be" integers.
Nick
[email protected]
Samira Reis
> Thank you for your suggestion Nick!
>
> I had done the "logging, interpolating on the
> logarithmic scale and then antilogging" before
> following what you had suggested to another person in
> the statalist some time ago. However, I thought it
> couldn't work for me because after doing that, values
> were not integer anymore, and my dependent variable is
> a count.
>
> But now you said also that decimals values may be not
> such a problem, that is, "you would be less worried
> about integer values yourself" then I will probably
> round the interpolated values to integer.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Samira.
>
>
> Samira Reis had difficulty sending this to the list.
>
> My own suggestion -- so long as all values are
> positive --
> is that Samira should consider logging, interpolating
> on the logarithmic scale and then antilogging.
>
> Or take square roots -- that doesn't ensure positive
> values either, but there are several grounds for
> regarding square roots as "first aid" (Tukey) for
> count.
>
> I would be less worried about integer values myself.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Samira Reis [mailto:[email protected]]
>
> Hi Stata users,
>
> I have a data set from 1980 to 2003 with some missing
> values for both
> dependent and independent variables. I tried using
> ipolate command in
> stata to get values and I used:
>
> by reg: ipolate ent year, gen (ient) epolate.
>
> The problem was that I obtained quite a few negative
> values and my
> variables can not be negative and my dependent
> variable must be integer
> as well. Could anybody help me to find out a
> correct way to deal with that, please?
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