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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: A bug in egen and gen? |
| Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:36:24 +0000 |
As said, I can -compress- doubles to bytes when there is no loss of precision. . about Stata/SE 11.1 for Windows (32-bit) Born 04 Nov 2010 Copyright (C) 2009 StataCorp LP [...] . set obs 1 obs was 0, now 1 . gen double compressable = 42 . compress compressable was double now byte You should supply specific examples of where you think that is not happening. Please use the %21x format to make clear what is happening at machine level. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Liao, Junlin Unless someone changed the command, my version of Stata 11 does not compress double to float when it can do so. This is also indicated in the documentation. However, I can recast a variable to float if there is no loss of precision, otherwise I have to put in the /force option to force convert with loss of precision. * * 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/