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Re: st: AW: problem with the generate command


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: AW: problem with the generate command
Date   Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:24:58 +0000 (GMT)

Below is my attempt at replicating what Isabelle had done, except that in this example Stata seems to function OK. Maybe Isabelle can change this example so that we can replicate the error she received.

*------- begin example ---------
drop _all
input long h
13
116
76
end
list
gen health = 1.6*h
list
*-------- end example -----------

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: AW: problem with the generate command
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 3 March, 2009, 9:14 AM
> <> 
> 
> A bug in -generate- would be weird indeed. Give an excerpt
> of your data, and
> show us exactly what you typed and what Stata made of it...
> 
> HTH
> Martin
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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> von
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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. März 2009 10:08
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: problem with the generate command
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I have a health expenditure variable in current dollars,
> called H. It is a
> numeric variable ("long"). I called it
> "H". I want to convert it in euros,
> e.g to multiply by 1,6 so I write in my do-file:
> "gen health=1.6*H"
> I am very surprised because the results are wrong. It is
> very strange. For
> instance:
> H=13.00   and  Health=23.32 (first observation)
> or: H=116.00 and Health=16.96 (2d one)
> or: H=76.00 and Health=169.6
> 
> Thank you very much for help
> Best regards
> 
> Isabelle
> 
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