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Re: st: RE: FW: Scientific Notation with svy
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"Sabbatini, Amber" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: FW: Scientific Notation with svy
Date
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:42:21 +0000
David,
Thanks, worked great.
Amber
On 6/10/13 1:16 PM, "Radwin, David" <[email protected]> wrote:
>You could follow this command with
>
>. display %20.10f _b[admitted]
>
>. display %20.10f _se[admitted]
>
>Also, Stata is not an acronym and is better rendered without capitalizing
>all letters.
>
>David
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sabbatini, Amber
>> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 10:09 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: st: FW: Scientific Notation with svy
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using HCUP data with survey weights to generate national estimates.
>> I have a dichotomous variable
>> admitted, which corresponds to being admitted to the hospital from the
>> emergency department.
>>
>> Very simply, when I run the svy command > svy: total admitted >
>> the output is in scientific notation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Survey: Total estimation
>>
>> Number of strata = 77 Number of obs = 22501784
>> Number of PSUs = 961 Population size = 101643816
>> Design df = 884
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> | Linearized
>> | Total Std. Err. [95% Conf. Interval]
>> -------------+------------------------------------------------
>> admitted | 1.87e+07 468977.5 1.78e+07 1.96e+07
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> I have tried placing ,format(%20.10f) on the end of the command, but I
>>get
>> an error message that format is not allowed. When I read info from
>>STATA
>> about svy, it states that STATA will allow numbers to 99 trillion before
>> it will report in scientific notation,
>> so I am not sure what is happening. I am using STATA v.12
>>
>> Any help to turn off the scientific notation would be great.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Amber Sabbatini, MD MPH
>> University of Michigan
>
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