Bookmark and Share

Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: st: numeric storage type


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: numeric storage type
Date   Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:52:21 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Thu, 10/6/10, [email protected] wrote:
> The database I am working with (ECHP) presents a variable stored as 
> double, since it has more then 14 digits, and i want to generate its
> maximum.
>
> But once I use the command "egen mID=max(pID)"  it generates
> automatically a variable stored as float and so the last digits result
> changed.

Type: -egen double mID=max(pID)-

Hope this helps,
maarten

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

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
--------------------------


      

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/


© Copyright 1996–2018 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   Site index