I don't understand what differentiates A and B from the other three,
but you can concatenate all and then search for patterns.
. egen all = concat(yr?)
. l if strpos(all, "100")
Nick
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Jon Schwabish
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.
For example, say I have 5 years of data and the
following information for 5 observations:
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
The variable names are something like yr1, yr2, yr3,
yr4, yr5. I would like to create a variable that
differentiates ObsA and ObsB from the other three.
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