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RE: st: programming error with -generate-
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"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: programming error with -generate-
Date
Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:28:27 +0100
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Does not even need an actual "x":
*******
clear
set obs 10
gen y = 1.2x+3
*******
It does, however, need an addition afterwards.
I guess Kieran`s guess re hexadecimal was right...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lachenbruch,
Peter
Sent: Montag, 8. März 2010 23:15
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: st: programming error with -generate-
But then it seems to take 12 and multiply by 6 to get 72. This is the kind
of arithmetic my students sometimes do... :-)
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Williams
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 1:51 PM
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Subject: Re: st: programming error with -generate-
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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