Yes, it's about that old favourite of this List, the storage type/decimal
precision issue, which keeps popping up here so regularly and under so many
different guises. In spite of several clarifying messages by Bill Gould
over the years, I can't claim that I understand all aspects this.
Say I made a mistake in -insheet-ing some data (or, ahem, just because the
"double" option of -insheet- didn't work well until recently) and I think a
particular variable appearing as a float in my data should really be there
with double precision.
Re-processing this data from scratch would represent a tremendous drag.
Would outsheeting the Stata dataset and re-insheeting it using the "double"
option fix this unambiguously? (I would think so but it just seems too
simple)
Many thanks for any comments.
Sylvain
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Sylvain Friederich
Department of Economics, University of Bristol
8 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TN
Tel +44(0)117 928-8425
Fax +44(0)117 928-8577
