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From | Steven Joel Hirsch Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: new problem with table display |
Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:22:29 -0400 |
--- Richard Ohrvall <richard.ohrvall@gmail.com> wrote:Sometimes we have to conform to the prevailing practice in ourRegarding Maartens comment, well I disagree, I often have weights calibrated to known population totals (eg. from a census). It therefore makes sense to have the exact population total in tables instead of a scientific notation with rounded figures. Of course these figures are usually a bit uncertain, but they are often treated as certain (eg. the population in the Netherlands at a certain date) and consistency in this aspect can help to avoid confusion.
discipline, but that does not mean we have to forget that that practice
is actually bad practice. Reporting numbers we know are nothing more
than random noise seems like bad practice to me.
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