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| From | Scott Merryman <scott.merryman@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: AW: st: xttrans accuracy |
| Date | Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:02:35 -0500 |
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote: > 2. Whether rounded fractions sum to 1 exactly not only involves machine precision issues but also provides some mathematical challenges. See for example > > Persi Diaconis and David Freedman > 1979 > On Rounding Percentages > Journal of the American Statistical Association 74: 359-364. > > -- and its references. This is online at: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/freedman79.pdf Scott * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/