Hello, I'm in dire need of your help if you are reading this. I just made a profile today and have a project due monday. The class is econometrics and we are working with Stata. I have a general understanding of how to do the project but definitely not an A+ understanding of how to do it.
My teacher gave us a sample project that a student completed back in 2012. The student is using data with 935 observations and then he states he "after omitting observations for missing values, I had 663 valid observations."
My questions is why would he omit observations and how would he omit. I think the omitting command is "drop if mi(). But I don't understand what he would put there.
He is working with a data set that deals with wage, educ, etc…He's trying to figure out if educ has any effect on wage, etc.
Is he dropping observations that are missing values for educ?
My teacher gave us a sample project that a student completed back in 2012. The student is using data with 935 observations and then he states he "after omitting observations for missing values, I had 663 valid observations."
My questions is why would he omit observations and how would he omit. I think the omitting command is "drop if mi(). But I don't understand what he would put there.
He is working with a data set that deals with wage, educ, etc…He's trying to figure out if educ has any effect on wage, etc.
Is he dropping observations that are missing values for educ?
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