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Re: st: FW: Scientific Notation with svy
From
Rebecca Pope <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: FW: Scientific Notation with svy
Date
Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:13:26 -0500
Amber,
Take a look at -help total- and then the section specifically devoted
to display options. You'll notice that the option is cformat(), not
format(). Note: Stata not STATA.
Regards,
Rebecca
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Sabbatini, Amber
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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