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Re: st: identifying a string of consecutive numbers


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: identifying a string of consecutive numbers
Date   Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:14:19 -0500

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jon Schwabish <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me with this b/c I'm
> totally stumped. I have a wide data set and am trying
> to identify observations that have a series of
> consecutive zeros following any positive number.

Something like this?

clear
input str4 id y1 y2 y3 y4 y5
ObsA  1 1 1 1 0
ObsB  1 1 1 0 0
ObsC  1 1 0 0 1
ObsD  1 0 1 1 1
ObsE  0 0 0 0 1
ObsF  1 5 7 2 0
ObsG  1 0 1 0 1
end
forv i = 1/4 {
	gen diff`i' =1 if  y`i' == 0 & y`=`i' +1' !=0
}
egen tag = anymatch(diff*), values(1)
drop diff*
l

Scott
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