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st: AW: float to numeric??
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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st: AW: float to numeric??
Date
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:15:31 +0200
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BTW, Özlen, the major distinction in Stata is between "numeric" and "string"
variables. Within "numeric", you have data types such as integer or float.
The "range" returned by -codebook- for your "chipeligrate" variable
indicates that one of its values, the minimum, is "0.1", which cannot be
held as integer:
***
clear*
inp myvar
0.1
end
d
recast int myvar
***
If you -force- it via - recast int myvar, force-, the former "0.1" will
become "0". Probably not what you want...
HTH
Martin
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Betreff: st: float to numeric??
Hi everyone,
I have a variable stored as float chip eligibility rate variable. very
straightforward - varies between .1 and 4. But it is stored as float and
gives me major toruble when I am using the values to generate new
variables etc. I would like to store it as numeric so that stata can
recognize the values of this variable. Does anyone have experience with
this??
. codebook chipeligrate
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
chipeligrate chip eligibility rate by year and age and
state
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
type: numeric (float)
range: [.1,4] units: .01
unique values: 40 missing .: 0/6585
mean: 1.92923
std. dev: .720279
percentiles: 10% 25% 50% 75% 90%
1 1.5 2 2 3
I need to chnage this variable and store is as int but I can not figure
out how. So far I tried compress but it seemed to work but when I
described the variable, still float.
Thanks so much for your help in advance.
--
Özlen D. Luznar
PhD Candidate - Public Policy
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
410-455-6527 office
443-846-5010 cell
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