I am having problem with MATLAB's maximum function. What I am supposed to do is to replace the maximum value of an array with a number. However, when there are more than one maximal value, the program updates all of them simultaneously. Is there a way to make it do it one by one? The order of replacement is not important; it can be done arbitrarily. The only important thing is to have MATLAB doing it one by one.
Thank you in advance.
The second output of max returns one index:
a=[5,5];
[b,idx]=max(a)
c=b-2;
a(idx)=c
When you say more than 1 maximum value, I assume you are talking about a matrix where max function operates on every column?
You can do the following:
a = [1 1 2;5 5 7; 3 2 9]
Obviously, the maximum value is going to be 9, but if you do the following:
max(a)
The result will be:
5 5 9
Based on each column.
The following may work for you?
max(a(:)) % Maximum value from a matrix (rerranged into 1 column)
you can do the same for the min function.
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I am trying to figure out how to split a vector in matlab into subvectors.
I am solving a differential equation numerically using dde23. When You do this the length of the solution vector changes. Thus, I am finding it not so easy to use the mat2cell command that many people suggest.
All I am trying to do is split (as evenly as possible) a vector of length N into an arbitrary amount of sub-vectors whose length may vary depending on the length of the time vector. I am doing this so then I can find the maximum value of each vector on in each interval.
If I understand the question, maybe you can try to split it by using code below
dataset=[ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
splitpoint = randi[2 length(dataset)-1]
subset1 = dataset(1,1:splitpoint)
splitpoint = randi[length(subset1)+1 length(dataset)-1]
subset2 = dataset(1,length(subset1)+1:splitpoint)
After that you can choose where to finish and accept rest of it for last subset or you can define one list to hold each subset in the row of the list. So you can define while loop to handle it automatically by defining stop_criteria.
I need to save the indices of 4 maximum numbers
for example, I need to get the indices of rows 10,9,7,5
5.0259327
4.7127487
4.8435524
4.8538644
5.1048996
6.2441973
5.9413803
6.2912638
5.1117512
5.8309519
5.7419509
6.9663477
5.9958319
6.9519781
6.5802736
6.7327558
7.6765878
I have used
[mA,nA]=max(distA)
where mA is the row and nA is the column
in getting one maximum number but I cannot figure out how to choose another maximum number without duplication. I cannot sort because I need the indices.
You can use the gsort function:
[S,ind]=gsort(distA,"g","d");
The index of the 4 largest elements is the given by
ind(1:4)
You can use this little trick.
[output_val, output_index] = max(input_mat(input_mat < max(input_mat)))
This will give you the value and index of the second largest element. And then similarly, you can do it for 4 numbers.
Suppose I have a vector B=[1 1 2 2] and A=[5 6 7 4] in the form of B says the numbers in the A that are need to be summed up. That is we need to sum 5 and 6 as the first entry of the result array and sum 7 and 4 as the second entry. If B is [1 2 1 2] then first element of the result is 5+7 and second element is 6+4.
How could I do it in Matlab in generic sense?
A fexible and general approach would be to use accumarray().
accumarray(B',A')
The function accumulates the values in A into the positions specified by B.
Since the documentation is not simple to understand I will summarize why it is flexible. You can:
choose your accumulating function (sum by default)
specify the positions as a set of coordinates for accumulation into ND arrays
preset the dimension of the accumulated array (by default it expands to max position)
pad with custom values the non accumulated positions (pads with 0 by default)
set the accumulated array to sparse, thus potential avoiding out of memory
[sum(A(1:2:end));sum(A(2:2:end))]
Starting wish a 7x4 binary matrix I need to change a random bit in each column to simulate error. Have been trying to no avail.
A very straightforward way to do this is to use a for loop. It might not be the most efficient approach in MATLAB, but it's probably good enough considering your data set is so small.
Iterate through each of the four columns. On each iteration, randomly chose a number from 1 to 7 to represent the row in that column that you have selected to change. Finally, flip the bit at that row/column. The following code does just this. Assume that "A" is a binary matrix with 7 rows and 4 columns
for col=1:4; %// Iterate through each column
row = ceil(7*rand()); %// Randomly chose a number from 1 to 7 to represent row
A(row,col) = ~A(row,col); %// Flip the bit at the specified row/col
end
Another possibility is to create 4 random numbers in one call, and assign in a vectorized fashion:
rowNumbers = randi(4,[1 4])
A(rowNumbers,:) = ~A(rowNumbers,:);
I am a new in MATLAB and I have a problem understanding the function size
in this statement: for i=1:size(scale,2) WHERE scale can be any integer number .e.g scale=5.
I found that in MATLAB help size(A,1) returns the number of rows of A , and
size(A,2) returns the number of columns of A.
Now I'm really confused as to what is the functionality of (size).
As you know, matlab deals mainly with matrices. So, the size function gives you the dimension of a matrix depending on how you use it. For example:
1. If you say size(A), it will give you a vector of size 2 of which the first entry is the number of rows in A and the second entry is the number of columns in A.
2. If you call size(A, 1), size will return a scalar equal to the number of rows in A.
3. If you call size(A, 2), size will return a scalar equal to the number of columns in A.
A scalar like scale in your example is considered as a vector of size 1 by 1. So, size(scale, 2) will return 1, I believe.
Hope this clarifies.
The Linear Algebra operations in Matlab/octave by default follow Row-Column order (ie they are row major by default); so if A is a matrix of size 3x2 (3 rows and 2 columns), we can use size to determine the order of matrix/vector
size(A) will return 3 2 (the first entry representing no.of rows & the second one is no.of columns). Similarly,
size(A,1) returns 3 (1 here represents the no. of rows and A has 3 rows)
size(A,2) returns 2 (2 here represents the no. of columns and A has 2 columns)