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RE: scientific notation? [was: Re: st: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:20:40 -0700]
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Ven Venkatachalam <[email protected]>
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RE: scientific notation? [was: Re: st: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:20:40 -0700]
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Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:34:09 -0700
Thanks a Lot Nick , really appreciated . Ven
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> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:31:45 +0000
> Subject: scientific notation? [was: Re: st: Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:20:40 -0700]
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> 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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