Kit,
Thanks again!
Le
On 10/1/07, Kit Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le Wang wonders why his Mata routine comes up one short some of the
> time. Just the usual finite-precision-arithmetic problem: remember
> that 0.1 is an irrational number in binary, so that adding it up 19
> times does not necessarily give you exactly 1.90. Replace the line
> computing the number of points with
>
> n=ceil((to-from)/increment) +1 /* Number of points*/
>
> and it should work.
>
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
>
>
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University of Minnesota
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