st: Re: Round

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

If you want to round to 4 digits, -help round()- will show you:  
replace varY=round(varY,.0001)

if you only want to round numbers just below 1 to 1, then

replace varY=1 if varY>.9999 & varY<=1

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
federica dm" <dmfederica@yahoo.it> wrote
Subject: st: Round

> Dear Statalistmembers,
>
> I would like to know how to round the last number for
> a continuous variable, such as income, to unity.
> I&#8217;ll try to be more explicit whit an example;
> supposing that the variable is like that:
>
> N. Obs.    varY
> 1     0.003
> 2     0.045
> 3     0.050
> .
> .
> 2348   .9999986
> 2349   .9999986
> 2350   .9999986
>
>  and I would like to round only the last 3 numbers to
> 1, what should I do?
>
> Thank you!
> Federica
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