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Re: st: variable format
From
Joerg Luedicke <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: variable format
Date
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:20:16 -0500
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Joerg Luedicke
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Andreas Drichoutis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Some variables in my dataset are stored as float %8.0g . I need to have
>> exactly 2 decimals for these variables, however Stata formats these with
>> more decimals e.g., it stores the value of 8.77 as 8.7700005.
>>
>> How do I convert variables to 2 decimals only.
>
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=stata+variable+format
>
> in your case it could be something like
>
> format %3.2f yourvariable
>
> if you numbers have no more than 3 digits
>
> J.
>
...might need to add that if your concern is not the format but the
actual value, you can round them using the round function together
with generate or replace (-help round-). So if you wanted to replace
your data you could do (if x is your variable):
replace x =round(x, .01)
J.
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