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Re: st: Rounding Errors Stata 12
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Rounding Errors Stata 12
Date
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:39:15 +0000
This is, surprising though it may seem, entirely standard and acceptable, and
a consequence of the fact that decimals such as anything.8 can not be
held _exactly_ as binaries.
A short answer is that to see just one decimal place, you need to
specify a format such as %8.1f. See
-help format-. For a much longer answer, see for a start
Blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The penultimate guide to precision
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Gould
4/12 http://blog.stata.com/2012/04/02/the-penultimate-
guide-to-precision/
Nick
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Gray, Charles <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am having an issue with Stata 12 adding decimal places to data that I
> insheet. I simply have a dataset in .csv format. The dataset contains a
> variable 'item_revenue.' When I open the dataset in Excel, several
> observations have a value of 60237.8 for the 'item_revenue' variable.
> However, when I insheet the dataset into Stata, these values change to
> 60237.801. My insheet command is simply,
>
> insheet using "data.csv", comma clear
>
> My understanding is that the .csv format saves only the text and values
> as they are displayed in cells of the active worksheet. So does anyone
> know why Stata would add decimal places to a variable?
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