FMISS: Stata module to identify variables with problematic missing values

Florian Wendelspiess Chávez Juárez ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: fmiss allows you to identify not only the total number missing values in each variable, but also how many of them are unique in the sense that for all other variables of the observation the information is available. This distinction is important to see which variable is causing a large drop int he sample size on its own. The module identifies missing value in numerical and string variable. For the case of numerical variables, also Stata-coded missing values (e.g. “.a”) are identified. Since a main issue of missing values is that it might introduce a sample selection problem, fmiss offers a very simple and purely introductive way to detect such problems. Using the option detail, a mean-comparison test between the original sample and the sample one would get by including the variable (this means dropping the unique missing values) is computed and variable where the difference is significant are reported.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 9.2
Keywords: missing data; patterns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11-27
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install fmiss". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fmiss.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fmiss.hlp help file (text/plain)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:boc:bocode:s457560

Ordering information: This software item can be ordered from
http://repec.org/docs/ssc.php

Access Statistics for this software item

More software in Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 USA. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christopher F Baum ().