Indices of max values in matrix - matlab

Let's say I have the following matrix:
j =
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
5 6 7 8
I would like to get back the following matrix:
z =
3 4
4 4
My experience with the max command hasn't yielded a result that resembles z, it appears that the max function turns the argument into a column vector.

It appears you want the row and column indices of all occurrences of the maximum computed across all dimensions (i.e. the maximum is a single value, which possibly appears in several entries). Then:
[rows, cols] = find(j==max(j(:)));
result = [rows cols];

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How to split a matrix based on how close the values are?

Suppose I have a matrix A:
A = [1 2 3 6 7 8];
I would like to split this matrix into sub-matrices based on how relatively close the numbers are. For example, the above matrix must be split into:
B = [1 2 3];
C = [6 7 8];
I understand that I need to define some sort of criteria for this grouping so I thought I'd take the absolute difference of the number and its next one, and define a limit upto which a number is allowed to be in a group. But the problem is that I cannot fix a static limit on the difference since the matrices and sub-matrices will be changing.
Another example:
A = [5 11 6 4 4 3 12 30 33 32 12];
So, this must be split into:
B = [5 6 4 4 3];
C = [11 12 12];
D = [30 33 32];
Here, the matrix is split into three parts based on how close the values are. So the criteria for this matrix is different from the previous one though what I want out of each matrix is the same, to separate it based on the closeness of its numbers. Is there any way I can specify a general set of conditions to make the criteria dynamic rather than static?
I'm afraid, my answer comes too late for you, but maybe future readers with a similar problem can profit from it.
In general, your problem calls for cluster analysis. Nevertheless, maybe there's a simpler solution to your actual problem. Here's my approach:
First, sort the input A.
To find a criterion to distinguish between "intraclass" and "interclass" elements, I calculate the differences between adjacent elements of A, using diff.
Then, I calculate the median over all these differences.
Finally, I find the indices for all differences, which are greater or equal than three times the median, with a minimum difference of 1. (Depending on the actual data, this might be modified, e.g. using mean instead.) These are the indices, where you will have to "split" the (sorted) input.
At last, I set up two vectors with the starting and end indices for each "sub-matrix", to use this approach using arrayfun to get a cell array with all desired "sub-matrices".
Now, here comes the code:
% Sort input, and calculate differences between adjacent elements
AA = sort(A);
d = diff(AA);
% Calculate median over all differences
m = median(d);
% Find indices with "significantly higher difference",
% e.g. greater or equal than three times the median
% (minimum difference should be 1)
idx = find(d >= max(1, 3 * m));
% Set up proper start and end indices
start_idx = [1 idx+1];
end_idx = [idx numel(A)];
% Generate cell array with desired vectors
out = arrayfun(#(x, y) AA(x:y), start_idx, end_idx, 'UniformOutput', false)
Due to the unknown number of possible vectors, I can't think of way to "unpack" these to individual variables.
Some tests:
A =
1 2 3 6 7 8
out =
{
[1,1] =
1 2 3
[1,2] =
6 7 8
}
A =
5 11 6 4 4 3 12 30 33 32 12
out =
{
[1,1] =
3 4 4 5 6
[1,2] =
11 12 12
[1,3] =
30 32 33
}
A =
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
out =
{
[1,1] =
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
[1,2] =
2 2 2 2 2 2
[1,3] =
3 3 3 3 3 3 3
}
Hope that helps!

dot product of matrix columns

I have a 4x8 matrix which I want to select two different columns of it then derive dot product of them and then divide to norm values of that selected columns, and then repeat this for all possible two different columns and save the vectors in a new matrix. can anyone provide me a matlab code for this purpose?
The code which I supposed to give me the output is:
A=[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8;1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8;1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8;1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8;];
for i=1:8
for j=1:7
B(:,i)=(A(:,i).*A(:,j+1))/(norm(A(:,i))*norm(A(:,j+1)));
end
end
I would approach this a different way. First, create two matrices where the corresponding columns of each one correspond to a unique pair of columns from your matrix.
Easiest way I can think of is to create all possible combinations of pairs, and eliminate the duplicates. You can do this by creating a meshgrid of values where the outputs X and Y give you a pairing of each pair of vectors and only selecting out the lower triangular part of each matrix offsetting by 1 to get the main diagonal just one below the diagonal.... so do this:
num_columns = size(A,2);
[X,Y] = meshgrid(1:num_columns);
X = X(tril(ones(num_columns),-1)==1); Y = Y(tril(ones(num_columns),-1)==1);
In your case, here's what the grid of coordinates looks like:
>> [X,Y] = meshgrid(1:num_columns)
X =
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Y =
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
As you can see, if we select out the lower triangular part of each matrix excluding the diagonal, you will get all combinations of pairs that are unique, which is what I did in the last parts of the code. Selecting the lower-part is important because by doing this, MATLAB selects out values column-wise, and traversing the columns of the lower-triangular part of each matrix gives you the exact orderings of each pair of columns in the right order (i.e. 1-2, 1-3, ..., 1-7, 2-3, 2-4, ..., etc.)
The point of all of this is that can then use X and Y to create two new matrices that contain the columns located at each pair of X and Y, then use dot to apply the dot product to each matrix column-wise. We also need to divide the dot product by the multiplication of the magnitudes of the two vectors respectively. You can't use MATLAB's built-in function norm for this because it will compute the matrix norm for matrices. As such, you have to sum over all of the rows for each column respectively for each of the two matrices then multiply both of the results element-wise then take the square root - this is the last step of the process:
matrix1 = A(:,X);
matrix2 = A(:,Y);
B = dot(matrix1, matrix2, 1) ./ sqrt(sum(matrix1.^2,1).*sum(matrix2.^2,1));
I get this for B:
>> B
B =
Columns 1 through 11
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Columns 12 through 22
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Columns 23 through 28
1 1 1 1 1 1
Well.. this isn't useful at all. Why is that? What you are actually doing is finding the cosine angle between two vectors, and since each vector is a scalar multiple of another, the angle that separates each vector is in fact 0, and the cosine of 0 is 1.
You should try this with different values of A so you can see for yourself that it works.
To make this code compatible for copying and pasting, here it is:
%// Define A here:
A = repmat(1:8, 4, 1);
%// Code to produce dot products here
num_columns = size(A,2);
[X,Y] = meshgrid(1:num_columns);
X = X(tril(ones(num_columns),-1)==1); Y = Y(tril(ones(num_columns),-1)==1);
matrix1 = A(:,X);
matrix2 = A(:,Y);
B = dot(matrix1, matrix2, 1) ./ sqrt(sum(matrix1.^2,1).*sum(matrix2.^2,1));
Minor Note
If you have a lot of columns in A, this may be very memory intensive. You can get your original code to work with loops, but you need to change what you're doing at each column.
You can do something like this:
num_columns = nchoosek(size(A,2),2);
B = zeros(1, num_columns);
counter = 1;
for ii = 1 : size(A,2)
for jj = ii+1 : size(A,2)
B(counter) = dot(A(:,ii), A(:,jj), 1) / (norm(A(:,ii))*norm(A(:,jj)));
counter = counter + 1;
end
end
Note that we can use norm because we're specifying vectors for each of the inputs into the function. We first preallocate a matrix B that will contain the dot products of all possible combinations. Then, we go through each pair of combinations - take note that the inner for loop starts from the outer most for loop index added with 1 so you don't look at any duplicates. We take the dot product of the corresponding columns referenced by positions ii and jj and store the results in B. I need an external counter so we can properly access the right slot to place our result in for each pair of columns.

How to change the value of the diagonal column of the matrix?

How do I change the list of value to all 1? I need the top right to bottom left also end up with 1.
rc = input('Please enter a value for rc: ');
mat = ones(rc,rc);
for i = 1:rc
for j = 1:rc
mat(i,j) = (i-1)+(j-1);
end
end
final = mat
final(diag(final)) = 1 % this won't work?
Code for the original problem -
final(1:size(final,1)+1:end)=1
Explanation: As an example consider a 5x5 final matrix, the diagonal elements would have indices as (1,1), (2,2) .. (5,5). Convert these to linear indices - 1, 7 and so on till the very last element, which is exactly what 1:size(final,1)+1:end gets us.
Edit : If you would like to set the diagonal(from top right to bottom left elements) as 1, one approach would be -
final(fliplr(eye(size(final)))==1)=1
Explanation: In this case as well we can use linear indexing, but just for more readability and maybe a little fun, we can use logical indexing with a proper mask, which is being created with fliplr(eye(size(final)))==1.
But, if you care about performance, you can use linear indexing here as well, like this -
final(sub2ind(size(final),1:size(final,1),size(final,2):-1:1))=1
Explanation: Here we are creating the linear indices with the rows and columns indices of the elements to be set. The rows here would be - 1:size(final,1) and columns are size(final,2):-1:1. We feed these two to sub2ind to get us the linear indices that we can use to index into final and set them to 1.
If you would to squeeze out the max performance here, go with this raw version of sub2ind -
final([size(final,2)-1:-1:0]*size(final,1) + [1:size(final,1)])=1
All of the approaches specified so far are great methods for doing what you're asking.
However, I'd like to provide another viewpoint and something that I've noticed in your code, as well as an interesting property of this matrix that may or may not have been noticed. All of the anti-diagonal values in your matrix have values equal to rc - 1.
As such, if you want to set all of the anti-diagonal values to 1, you can cheat and simply find those values equal to rc-1 and set these to 1. In other words:
final(final == rc-1) = 1;
Minor note on efficiency
As a means of efficiency, you can do the same thing your two for loops are doing when constructing mat by using the hankel command:
mat = hankel(0:rc-1,rc-1:2*(rc-1))
How hankel works in this case is that the first row of the matrix is specified by the vector of 0:rc-1. After, each row that follows incrementally shifts values to the left and adds an increasing value of 1 to the right. This keeps going until you encounter the vector seen in the second argument, and at this point we stop. In other words, if we did:
mat = hankel(0:3,3:6)
This is what we get:
mat =
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
Therefore, by specifying rc = 5, this is the matrix I get with hankel, which is identical to what your code produces (before setting the anti-diagonal to 1):
mat =
0 1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6 7
4 5 6 7 8
Tying it all together
With hankel and the cheat that I mentioned, we can compute what you are asking in three lines of code - with the first line of code asking for the dimensions of the matrix:
rc = input('Please enter a value for rc: ');
mat = hankel(0:rc-1, rc-1:2*(rc-1));
mat(mat == rc-1) = 1;
mat contains your final matrix. Therefore, with rc = 5, this is the matrix I get:
mat =
0 1 2 3 1
1 2 3 1 5
2 3 1 5 6
3 1 5 6 7
1 5 6 7 8
Here's a simple method where I just add/subtract the appropriate matrices to end up with the right thing:
final=mat-diag(diag(mat-1))+fliplr(diag([2-rc zeros(1,rc-2) 2-rc]))
Here is one way to do it:
Say we have a the square matrix:
a = ones(5, 5)*5
a =
5 5 5 5 5
5 5 5 5 5
5 5 5 5 5
5 5 5 5 5
5 5 5 5 5
You can remove the diagonal, then create a diagonal list of ones to replace it:
a = a - fliplr(diag(diag(fliplr(a)))) + fliplr(diag(ones(length(a), 1)))
a =
5 5 5 5 1
5 5 5 1 5
5 5 1 5 5
5 1 5 5 5
1 5 5 5 5
The diag(ones(length(a), 1)) can be any vector, ie. 1->5:
a = a - fliplr(diag(diag(fliplr(a)))) + fliplr(diag(1:length(a)))
a =
5 5 5 5 1
5 5 5 2 5
5 5 3 5 5
5 4 5 5 5
5 5 5 5 5

Calculate mean of columns only

I have a function that calculates the mean of two columns of a matrix. For example, if the following matrix is the input:
inputMatrix =
1 2 5 3 9
4 6 2 3 2
4 4 3 9 1
... And my command is:
outputVector = mean(inputArray(:,1:2))
...Then my output is:
outputVector =
3 4
The problem arises when my input matrix only contains one row (i.e. when it is a vector, not a matrix).
For example, the input:
inputMatrix =
4 3 7 2 1
Gives the output:
outputVector =
3.5000
I would like the same behaviour to be maintained regardless of how many rows are in the input. To clarify, the correct output for the second example above should be:
outputVector =
4 3
Use the second argument of MEAN to indicate along which dimension you want to average
inputMatrix =[ 4 3 7 2 1]
mean(inputMatrix(:,1:2),1) %# average along dim 1, i.e. average all rows
ans =
4 3
mean(blah, 1)
See the documentation: http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/techdoc/ref/mean.html.

How to extract the N minimum points and N maximum points (ignoring repeating points in an array) in MATLAB?

I have a sorted array of points like
x=[1 1 1 2 2 4 4 5 6 ......7 8 8 9 9]
I want to have an array containing 3 elements with minimum elements and 3 with maximum elements of this array (ignoring the same elements)
The desired results for the above would be
ans=[1 2 4 7 8 9]
A bit less elegant, but takes advantage of sorted input, so much faster.
i = find(diff(x)~=0);
ans = x([i([1:3 end-1:end]) end]);
You can do this using the function UNIQUE:
uniqueValues = unique(x); %# Get the unique values of x
minmaxValues = uniqueValues([1:3 end-2:end]); %# Get the 3 smallest and largest