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RE: st: Extra decimal places
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
RE: st: Extra decimal places
Date
Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:35:09 -0700 (PDT)
--- Devora Shamah wrote:
> I am having an issue with Stata adding places to decimal values. In
> preparation to append and merge the datasets I added a decimal number to
> the id codes based on the school id to ensure that id was unique across
> all the datasets.
>
> For example:
> gen id= ApplicationTableID+.3
>
> I have discovered that the actual values range from X.29999 -X.3002.
For the reason see: <http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/prec.html>
A solution is:
gen long id= 10 * ApplicationTableID +3
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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