Re: st: Sqaure root

["Eldin A. Leighton" <eleighton@cox.net>]

Try using parentheses around the "diameter", instead of braces.

flanagan@uchicago.edu wrote:
> I am a beginning stat major, and I am trying to figure out how to command the 
> stata program to take the square root of a data set, after I have already 
> infiled some data.
>
> I typed:
>
> gen square = sqrt{diameter}
>
> but it doesnt work 
> it says sqrt not found.
>
> does anyone know the command? 
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