Jeph and Martin,
thank you very much for your help.
Both methods work well.
Best regards,
Rose.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: How to deal with the accruacy of storage type?
Date: 2009-9-29 02:35:06
count if abs(x-y)<0.0001
where 0.0001 indicates the precision.
hth,
Jeph
[email protected] wrote:
> I encountered a problem on the accuracy of storage type.
>
> For example, I typed the following in the stata,
>
>
> clear
> input x y
> .46520616 .4652062
> .02347426 .0234743
> .01774185 .0177418
> .04014428 .0401443
> .24818808 .2481881
> .41385191 .4138519
> .27035237 .2703524
> .03764375 .0376438
> .22899382 .2289938
> .08620364 .0862036
> end
> l
> count if x==y
>
>
> The result of "count if x==y" is 0. However, in my actual matter, this situation should be treated as equal between x and y if the # digits (such as four or five) after decimal are the same.
>
> What is the right command to express the above meaning?
>
> Thank you a lot for any help.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rose.
>
>
>
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