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Re: st: st_numscalar to pass a calculation result from Mata to Stata
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Amir Fekrazad <[email protected]>
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Re: st: st_numscalar to pass a calculation result from Mata to Stata
Date
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:50:47 +0330
Thank you Nick. I tried what you told and found out that no precision was lost.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, you should test whether precision has been lost by using a
> non-default format such as %23.18f or %21x to display your scalar.
>
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Amir Fekrazad <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I use a Mata function to do some matrix calculation and then pass the
>> result to Stata using:
>> st_numscalar("varName", varValue)
>>
>> and in my Stata code I use:
>> scalar `varName' = varName
>>
>> to obtain the value passed from Mata.
>>
>> The problem is, is seems that some precision is lost through this
>> transfer. For example, while the result of the Mata function
>> (displayed in Mata environment) is 202.6188514, the value passed to
>> Stata (displayed in Stata environment) is 202.61885.
>>
>> I do not know if this is just the difference of displaying format in
>> Mata or Stata, or actually some precision is lost. Any advice is
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
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