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Re: st: drop observations - if statement


From   Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: drop observations - if statement
Date   Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:00:10 -0500

Are you sure any are missing?

Try

 count if missing(cusip)

and see what you get.

hth,
Jeph



On 3/5/2014 5:41 PM, R Zhang wrote:
Hi all,

I used the following commands to drop observations based on a string
variable - CUSIP- that takes missing values, i.e. delete observations
with missing CUSIP,

drop if cusip==""

cusip is str10

(0 observations deleted)

could you explain why "(0 observations deleted)"?

thanks,

Rochelle
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