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Re: st: programming error with -generate-
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: programming error with -generate-
Date
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:50:57 -0500
At 04:31 PM 3/8/2010, Visintainer, Paul wrote:
. gen y = 1.2x + 6 <----- why isn't there an error here?
When I do this, y = 72 for all cases. So 1.2x must be getting
interpreted as 1.2 * 10 = 12. I don't know why, but just follow
Martin's advice and make it
gen y = 1.2*x + 6
Maybe this is a "feature" but if so it doesn't seem like a good one,
since this could be an easy mistake to make.
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