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Re: st: RE: From: [email protected]
From
Eric Booth <[email protected]>
To
"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: RE: From: [email protected]
Date
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:11:47 +0000
If you want the non-missing cells to shift up to column and the other variables to stay fixed, you could create another dataset with just "x", remove the missings and merge it back in using a 1:1 merge on the row (_n):
***********
clear*
inp a x b
9 0.998 5
1 . 5
1 . 5
1 . 5
9 0.658 5
1 . 5
9 7.801 5
1 . 5
end
preserve
keep x
drop if mi(x)
save using.dta , replace
restore
drop x
merge 1:1 _n using using.dta
li
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~ Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
On Aug 13, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:
>
> <>
>
> You can -sort- on the variable to assemble all the values other than
> missings at the top. But the other variables will move as well...
>
> ***********
> clear*
>
> inp x
> 0.998
> .
> .
> .
> 0.658
> .
> 7.801
> .
> end
>
> gen byte othervar=_n
> so x
>
> list, noo
> ***********
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Freitag, 13. August 2010 21:48
> To: Stata List
> Subject: st: From: [email protected]
>
> Dear all,
>
> I wish to delete "cells" (not observations, aka rows) that have missing
> values for variable x only within x. Hence,
>
> "drop if x==."
>
> would not work because it will delete the observations across all
> variables, to explain graphically, I want something that looks like this:
>
> variable x
> 0.998
> .
> .
> .
> 0.658
> .
> 7.801
> .
>
> to become:
> 0.998
> 0.658
> 7.801
>
> without disturbing the other variables in the dataset. Manually
> manipulating in Excel is not an option because this is done half way
> through a do file and must be done by written commands. Stata is very easy
> to use to drop variables and observations, but can it delete specific
> "cells"?
>
> Can anyone help here?
>
> Any advice much appreciated,
> David
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