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RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?
Date
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:36:24 +0000
As said, I can -compress- doubles to bytes when there is no loss of precision.
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Stata/SE 11.1 for Windows (32-bit)
Born 04 Nov 2010
Copyright (C) 2009 StataCorp LP
[...]
. set obs 1
obs was 0, now 1
. gen double compressable = 42
. compress
compressable was double now byte
You should supply specific examples of where you think that is not happening. Please use the %21x format to make clear what is happening at machine level.
Nick
[email protected]
Liao, Junlin
Unless someone changed the command, my version of Stata 11 does not compress double to float when it can do so. This is also indicated in the documentation. However, I can recast a variable to float if there is no loss of precision, otherwise I have to put in the /force option to force convert with loss of precision.
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