Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 13:45 +0200 schrieb Martin Weiss:
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> Also note http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/float.html
Well, yes I know that. But I still don't think that this satisfactorily
explains the values.
> I get answers different from yours, both in Stata 10.1 and 11,
What do you mean that you get different answers. Do you get a zero?
> possibly b/c your dataset is not created by the code that you showed in your reply?
> I assume this is the case as your -list- command shows the "dummy"
> although it is -generate-d in the following line...
The dataset is created as described. I just produced the output of
-list- later and copied it to a place where I (mistakenly) thought it
makes things clearer.
Here is one more tackle on that. The first lines of the following
do-file reproduces the behavior on more time. The second part calculates
the standard deviation "by hand" showing that one could circumvent the
problem described in the FAQ. The third part changes one bit in the
hand-made solution, which makes it coming quite close to the -tabsum-
solution.
However, I have expected that -tabsum- works like the second part.
---------------------------------------------------------11.do
clear
set obs 3
gen byte coreweight1968 = 18
gen double firstweight = coreweight1968 * 60468000/78028
gen dummy = 1
tab dummy, sum(firstweight)
gen double sum = sum(firstweight)
gen double mean = sum[_N]/3
gen double diff = sum((firstweight - mean)^2)
di %17.16f sqrt(diff[_N]/2)
drop sum-diff
gen float sum = sum(firstweight)
gen double mean = sum[_N]/3
gen double diff = sum((firstweight - mean)^2)
di %17.16f sqrt(diff[_N]/2)
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Here is the output of the do-file without any modifications.
. do 11
. clear
. set obs 3
obs was 0, now 3
. gen byte coreweight1968 = 18
. gen double firstweight = coreweight1968 * 60468000/78028
. gen dummy = 1
. tab dummy, sum(firstweight)
| Summary of firstweight
dummy | Mean Std. Dev. Freq.
------------+------------------------------------
1 | 13949.146 .00024815 3
------------+------------------------------------
Total | 13949.146 .00024815 3
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. gen double sum = sum(firstweight)
. gen double mean = sum[_N]/3
. gen double diff = sum((firstweight - mean)^2)
. di %17.16f sqrt(diff[_N]/2)
0.0000000000022278
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. drop sum-diff
. gen float sum = sum(firstweight)
. gen double mean = sum[_N]/3
. gen double diff = sum((firstweight - mean)^2)
. di %17.16f sqrt(diff[_N]/2)
0.0007678068963647
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