You could create a new variable that is the original variable multiplied by
10000. As in:
gen x_basis = x*10000
summ x_basis
Regards,
Lee Sieswerda, Epidemiologist
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friederich,SJ [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Formatting very small values in percentage or basis points
>
> Dear All,
>
> Is someone aware of a way to get Stata to display (say, in a -summarize-
> command) a very small value such as:
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> -.0005052
>
> ...formatted as:
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> 5.052
>
> (i.e. in "basis points", one-hundredth of a percentage point)
>
> Hoping I'm not missing something obvious - thanks for any views.
>
> Sylvain
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