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Re: st: Precision issues with Mata. Where's my error?


From   Marta García-Granero <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Precision issues with Mata. Where's my error?
Date   Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:54:00 +0200

Thanks a lot! Time to adjust my glasses again.

Marta

El 05/06/2013 13:49, Scott Merryman escribió:
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Marta García-Granero
<[email protected]> wrote:
The problem is that I expected x42 and x43 to be 9.95 and 36.34 (checked
with other software, like Winpepi, or SPSS 21 NPTESTS command), and I get
10.36 and 36.55.

I can't find my error.
In the Excel code for x40 and x41 you have:

x40 = x16 * x16 - 2 * x39 * x16 * x27 + x27 * x27
x41 = x17 * x17 - 2 * x39 * x17 * x26 + x26 * x26

while the Mata code is:

x40=x16^2-2*x39*x16*(x27^3)
x41=x17^2-2*x39*x17*(x26^3)


x27 + x27 * x27 != x27^3

Scott

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