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st: Losing precision when saving to postfile
From
Shubhabrata Mukherjee <[email protected]>
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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
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