I'm new to Stata and am trying to write a simple routine that uses a
distribution function to create a statistic.
I thought this would be incredibly simple, but I've been unable to
create/initialize a simple set of parameter estimates in the routine
without putting them in a single line raw data file and reading that
file into Stata.
For instance I've tried:
. gen param1=.05
. display param1
and that produces (at least displays) a zero value instead of .05.
Then I tried:
. local param1=.05
. display param1
but that also produces (at least displays) an incorrect result.
I've also tried adding a format statement:
. form param1 %4.2f
but that didn't solve my problem.
I expect the answer is very simple, but I just can't find it in the
documentation.
Thanks for any help. I really did try to figure this out before asking
here.
George
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