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Ben Jann is quite correct in noting that my solution might lose
precision. It would indeed be better (and a simpler solution) to use a
Stata scalar in the first place:
. mata:st_numscalar("besser",st_matrix("e(b)")[1,1])
. di besser
-.32384535
. di %20.16f besser
-0.3238453484509378
Kit
Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Stata Programming
| http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata | http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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