Drop records on input

Automatic dropping

ASReml will automatically delete data records which have a missing value in the response variable unless the analysis is a multivariate analysis or the model term mv is fitted in the linear model.

Explicit dropping

!D v removes records with v or 'missing value' in the field
!DV v removes records with v in the field, but retains records with 'missing value' in the field.
!DV * removes records with 'missing value' in the field.

One of the operators < <= <> >= > may be inserted before v to modify the set of records deleted.
If !D v is used after !A or !I, v should refer to the encoded factor level rather than the value in the data file.
 yield !DV<= 0  # Drop records with 0 or negative values.
 age  !DV *   # Drop records if 'age' is 'missing'

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