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Re: st: Missing values and listing IDs


From   "Ashim Kapoor" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Missing values and listing IDs
Date   Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:59:15 +0530

oh great. Thank you..

Ashim.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> No. That is legal code, but it doesn't do what you want.
>
> missing(x1-x6) is true if the difference between the two variables x1
> and x6, i.e. the expression x1-x6, is missing, not if any of the
> variables x1 through x6 is missing.
>
> There are at least two ways to see this:
>
> 1. Experiment with made-up data.
>
> 2. Look at the help. You want -missing()- to support
> -missing(<varlist>)- but it doesn't. Its arguments must be separated by
> commas. (Conversely, a <varlist> cannot contain commas. If it did then
> commands based on <cmdname> <varlist> , <options> could not work
> reliably.)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Ashim Kapoor
>
> would missing(x1-x6) work? I have seen that sometimes.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Note that what you must type, or otherwise get Stata to see, is
>>
>> missing(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6)
>>
>> That is, Stata will not replace an ellipsis ... with what you intend
> or
>> imply.
>>
>> That said, you can go
>>
>> list id if missing(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6)
>>
>> The new variable is not essential for this purpose.
>
> Johannes Geyer
>
>> gen miss0 = missing(x1,x2,x3,...,x6)
>> list id if miss0 == 1
>
> Sham
>
>>> I wish to list the ID numbers of those individuals in my dataset
>>> that have at least one missing value out any six variables (x1-x6).
>>> At the moment I have used the following logic:
>>>
>>> list responder_status ID if  x1==. | x2==. | ///
>>> x3==. | x4==. | x5==. | x6==.
>
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