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Re: st: variable format
From
Joerg Luedicke <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: variable format
Date
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:53:19 -0500
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Andreas Drichoutis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Some variables in my dataset are stored as float %8.0g . I need to have
> exactly 2 decimals for these variables, however Stata formats these with
> more decimals e.g., it stores the value of 8.77 as 8.7700005.
>
> How do I convert variables to 2 decimals only.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=stata+variable+format
in your case it could be something like
format %3.2f yourvariable
if you numbers have no more than 3 digits
J.
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