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Re: st: Using a scalar/macro for loop limit in building Sureg equations


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Using a scalar/macro for loop limit in building Sureg equations
Date   Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:09:07 +0000 (GMT)

--- Thomas Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, both versions worked as you suggested.  Is there any reason
> why a scalar is a bad choice here?  I ask because of the wording you
> used about "insisting" upon it vs. "easier" to use a macro, etc.

Scalars aren't bad, it is just that locals are easier to use, which
means a smaller probability of a bug creeping in your analysis.  The
advantage of scalars is greater precision, but I believe that
difference is between 14 versus 16 digits, so in most applications that
would not matter.

-- Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

visiting address:
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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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