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st: Re: Re: Dealing with missing values


From   Clyde B Schechter <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: Re: Dealing with missing values
Date   Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:12:30 +0000

Following up on Joseph Coveney's suggestion that the value of Year that looks like "1990" might contain additional non-numeric characters that do not display, a more specific diagnosis of the problem could be achieved by

charlist Year if missing(real(Year))

I also agree with Nick Cox that it sounds like what you really want is best achieved with -destring- rather than using the date() function.  The above applies in either case, though.

Hope this helps.

Clyde Schechter
Dept. of Family & Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA


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