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Carlos Cinelli
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This has more to do with how computers work than with p-values. You have to remember that computers can't represent real numbers exactly. We are dealing with floating point numbers. So some algorithms will never get exactly zero, even if analytically the result should be zero. For example (0.3-0.2) - (0.2-0.1) will not give you zero.

You can see that most of yourthe estimates are essentialyessentially zero:

all.equal(-3.348e-15, 0)
TRUE
all.equal(-9.377e-16, 0)
TRUE

The same goes for your standard errors: they are zero.

This has more to do with how computers work than with p-values. You have to remember that computers can't represent real numbers exactly. We are dealing with floating point numbers. So some algorithms will never get exactly zero, even if analytically the result should be zero. For example (0.3-0.2) - (0.2-0.1) will not give you zero.

You can see that most of your estimates are essentialy zero:

all.equal(-3.348e-15, 0)
TRUE
all.equal(-9.377e-16, 0)
TRUE

The same goes for your standard errors: they are zero.

This has more to do with how computers work than with p-values. You have to remember that computers can't represent real numbers exactly. We are dealing with floating point numbers. So some algorithms will never get exactly zero, even if analytically the result should be zero. For example (0.3-0.2) - (0.2-0.1) will not give you zero.

You can see that the estimates are essentially zero:

all.equal(-3.348e-15, 0)
TRUE
all.equal(-9.377e-16, 0)
TRUE

The same goes for your standard errors: they are zero.

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Carlos Cinelli
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This has more to do with how computers work than with p-values. You have to remember that computers can't represent real numbers exactly. We are dealing with floating point numbers. So some algorithms will never get exactly zero, even if analytically the result should be zero. For example (0.3-0.2) - (0.2-0.1) will not give you zero.

You can see that most of your estimates are essentialy zero:

all.equal(-3.348e-15, 0)
TRUE
all.equal(-9.377e-16, 0)
TRUE

The same goes for your standard errors: they are zero.