Please could somebody explain to me how this could occur:
I want to generate a dataset with 6561 observations, with two
variables, let us say x and y, which take values between -2 and 2,
with step value 0.05. The aim of this is to test a function which I
have programmed which is causing some trouble. Therefore I need 81
occurences of x==-2, and 81 of x==-1.95 and so on for both x and y.
If I construct x as follows (crude so feel free to suggest
alternatives)
egen ind=fill (1 2)
replace ind=ind-1
gen x=int(ind/81)
replace x=(x/20)-2
this should work, and does when the data is displayed to 2 decimal
places. However closer examination of the data with the data browser
shows some anomalies, where rather that x==-.95 it actually reads
x==.-9499999. This occurs for many values in between -1 and 1 and
attempts to rectify it using
gen x2=round(x,0.05)
have not bourne fruit. What am I missing?
Many thanks in advance,
Julian
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