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Alejandro Torres
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what a. means in a observation?
11 Jan 2019, 07:07
Hello, I merged two databases and after that, some observations (cells) have a string "a."
What does it mean?
Thank you
Daniel Devine
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11 Jan 2019, 07:53
It is a missing value. See this link:
https://www.stata.com/help10.cgi?missing+values
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Richard Williams
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11 Jan 2019, 08:51
Are you sure it is not .a? .a is a missing value.
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Alejandro Torres
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#4
11 Jan 2019, 11:04
Dear Daniel and Richard, effectively is .a, thank you very much!
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