Esttab - numerical format of F-stat not changing

[Marina Ngoma]

I am formating a regression table using the codes below. The number of observations in the table has no decimals, while my F-statistic is showing up with 9 decimals instead of zero decimals as specified in the "sfmt(%9.0fc)" option of the esttab command. How can I get my F-statistic to display in the table without decimals?

      ** Col00: OLS
        reg `var' X`n', robust
              est store D00
            
            
        ** Col02: First stage 
        reg X`n' IV`n' , robust
            est store D02
            
            test IV`n'= 0
            estadd local fstat "`r(F)'"
            
        
        ** Col2: 2SLS
        ivregress 2sls `var'  (X`n' = IV`n'),  robust
            est store D2
        
        
        *Print table 
        esttab D00 D02 D2 using "$tablesov\regression-results.tex" , ///
        replace noobs b(%10.3f) se star(* 0.10 ** 0.05 *** 0.01)  ///
        scalars("N Number of Obsevations" "fstat F-statistic") sfmt(%9.0fc)   ///
        align(cccc) mtitles ("OLS" "First stage" "2SLS") label nogaps numbers nonotes keep(X`n' IV`n')

Thanks

[Andrew Musau]

estout is from SSC, as you are asked to explain. The contents of locals are not necessarily interpreted as reals. In your case, the double quotes specify that the statistic is to be saved as a string. You instead want:

estadd scalar fstat `r(F)'

[Marina Ngoma]

That worked great! Thank you, Andrew.