Thank you Maarten for your suggestion. This is what I obtained:
. format trite %9.2e
. l trite in 1/5, clean
trite
1. 4.10e-03
2. 4.75e-03
3. 3.80e-03
4. 4.82e-03
5. 7.83e-03
Actually what I wanted was to be able to display like (and I concoct this):
1. .0041
2. .0047
3. .0038
4. .0048
5. .0078
When I refer back to the manual [U] 15.5, it stated putting an optional 0 to retain leading zeros, so I tried format trite %09.2e, which did not give a different result from what you have given. But when I did %09.2g it did! Problem solved.
Thank you,
bw
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> Subject: st: RE: formatting for significant figures
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:10:18 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> -format trite %9.2e-
> HTH,
> Maarten
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of b. water
> Sent: woensdag 10 mei 2006 15:06
> To: statalist
> Subject: st: formatting for significant figures
>
> hi all,
>
> Stata 8.2,
>
> Is there a way to format numericals results for significant figures. For example:
>
> . sysuse auto
>
> . gen trite=price/1000000
>
> . l trite in 1/10, clean
>
> trite
> 1. .004099
> 2. .004749
> 3. .003799
> 4. .004816
> 5. .007827
> 6. .005788
> 7. .004453
> 8. .005189
> 9. .010372
> 10. .004082
>
> How can I format trite to display just 2 (or any number in general) significant figures? I looked at [R] Format, [U] 15.5, help format, searched the list using 'signifcant figures' and Googled 'stata significant figures' but without success. Appreciate advice/help.
>
> Regards,
> bw
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