Esttab rounding option

[Rebecca Ivester]

I am outputting regression results using esttab and am using the options b(a2) and se(a3) to round the coefficients to two decimal places and the SEs to three decimal places; however, as is described in the help file, absolute numbers smallers than 1 are diplayed with # significant decimal places--e.g., 0.00123456 would be rounded and displayed as 0.00123. Does anyone know a way to make it show to only three decimal places? So instead of 0.00123, it would round and display as 0.001.

[Jack Benhayer]

Do not use a, type b(3) se(3) only.

[Andrew Musau]

esttab is from Stata Journal (as you are asked to explain). The command allows one to specify Stata's display formats and in this case

esttab, b(%5.3f)

achieves what you want. See

help format