Nick, thanks a lot.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009 5:41 pm
Subject: st: RE: Any ways to specify the regression output to 2 decimal places?
To: [email protected]
> You can't. This is one reason why so many user-written commands exist
> in
> this territory.
>
> It would be possible in principle to add a large menagerie of options
> to
> commands like -regress-, but there would need to be many such options
> to
> cope with the gamut of possible user desires. StataCorp decided to solve
> this problem by ignoring it, or more precisely by providing other tools
> for you to pick up and process output.
>
> Note that there is not much reason to expect the results of the -format-
> command to apply here, as that concerns how values of a variable are
> to
> be displayed. But (e.g.) the units of the coefficient of X1 in a
> regression are the units of Y divided by the units of X1. So which
> format should apply? And t and P are dimensionless, so no variable's
> format is pertinent.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Charles Man@CCR
>
> Is there any way to specify the regression results to 2 decimal places?
> I don't mean the figures after the -esttab- or -estout-command. I mean
> the regression result table after -regress- command?
>
> It seems fmt% doesn't work in -reg- command. How can I specify the
> regression table to show coeff, t, se, p>t and CI with only 2 decimal
> places rather than the default 7 decimal places?
>
>
> Y | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t|
> [95% Conf. Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> X1 | .0000975 .0068564 0.01 0.989 -.0133751
> .0135701
> X2 | .0058169 .0043916 1.32 0.186 -.0028125
> .0144463
> _cons | .2223101 .0274083 8.11 0.000 .1684536
> .2761665
>
>
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