Sylvain Friederich
> > Is someone aware of a way to get Stata to display (say,
> in a -summarize-
> > command) a very small value such as:
> >
> > -.0005052
> >
> > ...formatted as:
> >
> > 5.052
> >
> > (i.e. in "basis points", one-hundredth of a percentage point)
> >
> > Hoping I'm not missing something obvious - thanks for any views.
Lee Sieswerda
> You could create a new variable that is the original
> variable multiplied by
> 10000. As in:
>
> gen x_basis = x*10000
> summ x_basis
I agree with Lee. This looks like more than a formatting
issue: it is a question of transformation.
Incidentally, what happened to the negative sign?
Nick
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