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Re: st: finding incorrectly entered data


From   Michael Eisenberg <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: finding incorrectly entered data
Date   Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:01:00 -0500

thanks to all for your brilliant replies.  they worked.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Michael Eisenberg wrote:
>>
>> I have a list of several thousand patients with a lab test and days from
>> the test recorded.  I'd like to be able to analyze the days from test data
>> as a continuous variable.  Unfortunately, some of the data in the days from
>> lab test are not numeric and have odd characters (e.g. ?, +-5, na, etc).
>>  See below.  Thus, I cannot run any summary statistics on it.
>>
>> I cannot manually look through all the data due to the number of men to
>> find the nonnumeric data.  Is there a way I can have stata somehow flag the
>> rows with nonnumeric data?
>
>
>    destring daysfromtest, gen(foo) force
>    tab daysfromtest if mi(foo)
>
>
> -- Phil
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