Your wanting to omit leading zeros seems the
tricky bit.
There may well be a better way, but you
can fudge this by
. gen rnd = uniform()
. gen s_rnd = "." + string(round(1000 * rnd), "%04.0f")
. l rnd s_rnd
Nick
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b. water
> 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.
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> > -format trite %9.2e-
b. water
> 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.
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