st: Data Management question

[Hitesh Chandwani <hchandwani.stata@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

I have a data management issue. I need to generate a couple of
indicator variables from variables that already exist in the dataset.

Let's call the required indicator vars X, Y, and Z with values of 1 or
0. Whether the value of these vars is 1 or 0 depends on the value of 5
other indicator variables (A, B, C, D, E). A-E are chronologically
ordered (i.e., A indicates an event that happened before B, which
happened before C, and so on).

For each observation:
X = 1 if at least 3 "consecutive" vars from A-E are equal to 1.
Y = 1 if at least 2 "consecutive" vars from A-E are equal to 1.
Z = 1 if only 1 or 2 "non-consecutive" vars from A-E are equal to 1.

I could do this the long way with repeated gen and replace commands
but I'm sure there's a better way to do it (only I don't know how).

Any input is much appreciated.

Thanks,
-- 
Hitesh S. Chandwani, MBBS, MS
University of Texas at Austin
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