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You are obsessed with that "professor" thing, but maybe it means different
things to different people...
What is " stata transfer", though? Do you mean you transferred with built-in
commands, or via Stat/Transfer?
You are right about the empty boxes for strings, I totally forgot about
them...
My recollection of Excel is a little hazy, but "#N/A" sounds more like an
error than a missing - although there can of course be overlap between the
two...
HTH
Martin
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Sent: Samstag, 17. Oktober 2009 17:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: about the missing values
Professor Martin, thanks a lot for your quick answer,
in fact I've used stata transfer to transfer a data set from an excel
spreed sheet to a stata format,
the format of my missing values on the excel spreed sheet are #N/A.
When I've transformed them to stata, sometimes I'get the "." and
others just complet empty boxes.
perhaps the problems in on the format of the variables, when I'm
getting the "." the format is byte but the problem appears when the
format is string
any hints?
thanks a lot in advance.
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