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RE: RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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RE: RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?
Date
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:48:14 +0000
See -help data_types- for the maximum values that can be held in each type. -recast- is .ado code, so -viewsource recast.ado- shows what it does exactly.
Nick
[email protected]
Liao, Junlin
Out of curiosity, do you know the maximum difference that the -recast- procedure allows to recast a variable from double to float?
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