Date:         Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:59:55 -0500
Reply-To:     Paige Miller <paige.miller@KODAK.COM>
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From:         Paige Miller <paige.miller@KODAK.COM>
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company
Subject:      Re: counting "non missing" values
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welterh@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I would like to count the number of "non-missing" observations, but
> don't know how to do it. Is there an easy solution?
>
> Here my input dataset:
>
> OBS  VAR1 VAR2 VAR3
> 1      5   X     .
> 2      .   Y     .
> 3      4   .     2.6
>
> And heres the answert I would like to have:
> VAR1 2
> VAR2 2
> VAR3 1

Use the N function, which counts the number of non-missing values.

NONMISS = N (OF Var1-Var3);

Couldn't be simpler!


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Paige Miller
Eastman Kodak Company
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