Re: st: odd behavior in ado file

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 10:10 PM 7/22/2005 +0900, Katsuhide Isa wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I wrote the following simple ado file.
>
> /*----------myboxcox.ado----------*/
> program define myboxcox
> version 7
> local y = exp(`1')
> if `y' == 1 {
>    di in gr "f = " 1
>    }
> else {
>    local f = (`y' - 1)/ln(`1')
The log of 1 is zero, so you are doing division by 0.  Did you perhaps mean 
ln(`y') instead?

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