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Re: st: Losing precision when saving to postfile


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Losing precision when saving to postfile
Date   Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:19:33 +0100

What is missing here from your post is the datatype of -pvalue-. If
you are putting results into a -float-, which is the default datatype,
then you will lose precision. You should use a -double-, although my
visceral instinct is that won't help the underlying science here.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Shubhabrata Mukherjee
<[email protected]> wrote:

>  I was trying to save results from an ordinal logistic regression to a postfile and was wondering why it's losing precision after some decimal places.
>
> When I type ereturn after performing the rgression, I get
>
> e(p) =  .0208020545704587.
>
> Afterwards opening the postfile and typing
>
>
> display " " %12.10f pvalue gives me the following:
>
> 0.0208020546 which is fine, but when typing
>
>
> display " " %20.15f pvalue, I get 0.020802054554224
>
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>

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