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scientific notation? [was: Re: st: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:20:40 -0700]
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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scientific notation? [was: Re: st: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:20:40 -0700]
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Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:31:45 +0000
Stata uses scientific notation [NB] because your numbers are so big,
up to 790 million. You will get similar problems with many other
commands. Rather than play with the format, scale to something more
convenient, e.g. by dividing by 1e6.
Nick
[email protected]
On 18 November 2013 06:20, Ven Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using summary statistic command ( through user interface) and i get result in scientific notion . The same thing happens in 2x 2 frequency table.
>
> summarize q2_oprtexp12
>
> Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
> -------------+--------------------------------------------------------
> q2_oprtexp12 | 28 4.96e+07 1.49e+08 6339 7.90e+08
>
>
>
> I want to turn off the scientific notion and get results in complete number for all the values . New user to stata 13 . any help appreciated .
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