[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jenny) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > What should I do with the missing values in my data. I ned to perform > a t test of two samples to test the mean difference between them. > > How should I handle them in S-Plus or SAS?
It depends on whether the thing that caused them to be missing is in any way related to the outcome you measure. If not (say, with values "missing at random"), then you could just ignore them - most statistics packages will do that automatically for you. Glen ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================