Re: st: places past the decimal point

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 15:58 28/05/03 -0400, Robert Bozick wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a way to get STATA to produce more places 
> past the decimal point for statistics such as means, standard deviations, 
> beta coefficients from an OLS regression, standard errors?
Yes. Use the -parmest- package, downloadable from SSC. Type -ssc desc 
parmest- in Stata to find out more.

The -parmest- package creates a data set with 1 observation per model 
parameter, or 1 observation per parameter per by-group, and data on 
parameter names, estimates, standard errors, confidence limits, P-values, 
and other parameter attributes specified by the user. It has a -format- 
option so the user can choose how many decimal places (or significant 
figures) s/he wants to use. In the simplest case, -parmest- can list this 
data set to the Stata log or to the output window, as Robert seems to want 
to do. However, the user can alternatively save the data set to a disk 
file, or even write it to memory (overwriting the previous data). The user 
can then produce plots and/or tables of confidence limits for delivery to 
the end user.

If Robert has Stata 8, then the -estimates table- command in official Stata 
might be a less powerful but slightly simple alternative. Type -help 
estimates table- to find more about this possibility.

I hope this helps.

Roger


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