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From | Shubhabrata Mukherjee <joy_stat@yahoo.com> |
To | stata forum <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | st: Losing precision when saving to postfile |
Date | Tue, 9 Aug 2011 12:04:28 -0700 (PDT) |
Hello, I was trying to save results from an ordinal logistic regression to a postfile and was wondering why it's losing precision after some decimal places. When I type ereturn after performing the rgression, I get e(p) = .0208020545704587. Afterwards opening the postfile and typing display " " %12.10f pvalue gives me the following: 0.0208020546 which is fine, but when typing display " " %20.15f pvalue, I get 0.020802054554224 What am I doing wrong here? Thanks, -Joey * * 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/