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by babahoyo 2861 days ago
you were somehow satisfied with the way stata handles missing values???

    gen x = y if z > 4 // headaches abound
Julia's missing value support is great now and is only going to get better. You have to be more careful with how you use them, but you won't get anything like the output above in julia.

* For reference, stata uses +Inf as missing value, so any operation with "greater then" is going to assign missing values to something. And yes, there have research papers retracted due to this behavior.

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One of my least favorite quirks of Stata