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Nick Winter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andreasalvatori@libero.it [mailto:andreasalvatori@libero.it]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 9:36 AM
> To: statalist
> Subject: st: changing format
>
>
> A stupid question:
>
> I have a lot of numerical values which have been inputted as
> string values: how do I tell STATA to read them as numbers?
>
>
> Andrea Salvatori
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> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/