How to count patterns columnwise in Matlab? - matlab

Question

I have a matrix S in Matlab that looks like the following:
2 2 1 2
2 3 1 1
3 3 1 1
3 4 1 1
3 1 2 1
4 1 3 1
1 1 3 1
I would like to count patterns of values column-wise. I am interested into the frequency of the numbers that follow right after number 3 in any of the columns. For instance, number 3 occurs three times in the first column. The first time we observe it, it is followed by 3, the second time it is followed by 3 again and the third time it is followed by 4. Thus, the frequency for the patters observed in the first column would look like:
3-3: 66.66%
3-4: 33.33%
3-1: 0%
3-2: 0%

Answer 1

To generate the output, you could use the convenient tabulate
S = [
2 2 1 2
2 3 1 1
3 3 1 1
3 4 1 1
3 1 2 1
4 1 3 1
1 1 3 1];
idx = find(S(1:end-1,:)==3);
S2 = S(2:end,:);
tabulate(S2(idx))
Value Count Percent
1 0 0.00%
2 0 0.00%
3 4 66.67%
4 2 33.33%

Answer 2

Here's one approach, finding the 3's then looking at the following digits
[i,j]=find(S==3);
k=i+1<=size(S,1);
T=S(sub2ind(size(S),i(k)+1,j(k))) %// the elements of S that are just below a 3
R=arrayfun(#(x) sum(T==x)./sum(k),1:max(S(:))).' %// get the number of probability of each digit

Answer 3

I'm going to restate your problem statement in a way that I can understand and my solution will reflect this new problem statement.
For a particular column, locate the locations that contain the number 3.
Look at the row immediately below these locations and look at the values at these locations
Take these values and tally up the total number of occurrences found.
Repeat these for all of the columns and update the tally, then determine the percentage of occurrences for the values.
We can do this by the following:
A = [2 2 1 2
2 3 1 1
3 3 1 1
3 4 1 1
3 1 2 1
4 1 3 1
1 1 3 1]; %// Define your matrix
[row,col] = find(A(1:end-1,:) == 3);
vals = A(sub2ind(size(A), row+1, col));
h = 100*accumarray(vals, 1) / numel(vals)
h =
0
0
66.6667
33.3333
Let's go through the above code slowly. The first few lines define your example matrix A. Next, we take a look at all of the rows except for the last row of your matrix and see where the number 3 is located with find. We skip the last row because we want to be sure we are within the bounds of your matrix. If there is a number 3 located at the last row, we would have undefined behaviour if we tried to check the values below the last because there's nothing there!
Once we do this, we take a look at those values in the matrix that are 1 row beneath those that have the number 3. We use sub2ind to help us facilitate this. Next, we use these values and tally them up using accumarray then normalize them by the total sum of the tallying into percentages.
The result would be a 4 element array that displays the percentages encountered per number.
To double check, if we look at the matrix, we see that the value of 3 follows other values of 3 for a total of 4 times - first column, row 3, row 4, second column, row 2 and third column, row 6. The value of 4 follows the value of 3 two times: first column, row 6, second column, row 3.
In total, we have 6 numbers we counted, and so dividing by 6 gives us 4/6 or 66.67% for number 3 and 2/6 or 33.33% for number 4.

Answer 4

If I got the problem statement correctly, you could efficiently implement this with MATLAB's logical indexing and an approach that is essentially of two lines -
%// Input 2D matrix
S = [
2 2 1 2
2 3 1 1
3 3 1 1
3 4 1 1
3 1 2 1
4 1 3 1
1 1 3 1]
Labels = [1:4]'; %//'# Label array
counts = histc(S([false(1,size(S,2)) ; S(1:end-1,:) == 3]),Labels)
Percentages = 100*counts./sum(counts)
Verify/Present results
The styles for presenting the output results listed next use MATLAB's table for a well human-readable format of data.
Style #1
>> table(Labels,Percentages)
ans =
Labels Percentages
______ ___________
1 0
2 0
3 66.667
4 33.333
Style #2
You can do some fancy string operations to present the results in a more "representative" manner -
>> Labels_3 = strcat('3-',cellstr(num2str(Labels','%1d')'));
>> table(Labels_3,Percentages)
ans =
Labels_3 Percentages
________ ___________
'3-1' 0
'3-2' 0
'3-3' 66.667
'3-4' 33.333
Style #3
If you want to present them in descending sorted manner based on the percentages as listed in the expected output section of the question, you can do so with an additional step using sort -
>> [Percentages,idx] = sort(Percentages,'descend');
>> Labels_3 = strcat('3-',cellstr(num2str(Labels(idx)','%1d')'));
>> table(Labels_3,Percentages)
ans =
Labels_3 Percentages
________ ___________
'3-3' 66.667
'3-4' 33.333
'3-1' 0
'3-2' 0
Bonus Stuff: Finding frequency (counts) for all cases
Now, let's suppose you would like repeat this process for say 1, 2 and 4 as well, i.e. find occurrences after 1, 2 and 4 respectively. In that case, you can iterate the above steps for all cases and for the same you can use arrayfun -
%// Get counts
C = cell2mat(arrayfun(#(n) histc(S([false(1,size(S,2)) ; S(1:end-1,:) == n]),...
1:4),1:4,'Uni',0))
%// Get percentages
Percentages = 100*bsxfun(#rdivide, C, sum(C,1))
Giving us -
Percentages =
90.9091 20.0000 0 100.0000
9.0909 20.0000 0 0
0 60.0000 66.6667 0
0 0 33.3333 0
Thus, in Percentages, the first column are the counts of [1,2,3,4] that occur right after there is a 1 somewhere in the input matrix. As as an example, one can see column -3 of Percentages is what you had in the sample output when looking for elements right after 3 in the input matrix.

Answer 5

If you want to compute frequencies independently for each column:
S = [2 2 1 2
2 3 1 1
3 3 1 1
3 4 1 1
3 1 2 1
4 1 3 1
1 1 3 1]; %// data: matrix
N = 3; %// data: number
r = max(S(:));
[R, C] = size(S);
[ii, jj] = find(S(1:end-1,:)==N); %// step 1
count = full(sparse(S(ii+1+(jj-1)*R), jj, 1, r, C)); %// step 2
result = bsxfun(#rdivide, count, sum(S(1:end-1,:)==N)); %// step 3
This works as follows:
find is first applied to determine row and col indices of occurrences of N in S except its last row.
The values in the entries right below the indices of step 1 are accumulated for each column, in variable count. The very convenient sparse function is used for this purpose. Note that this uses linear indexing into S.
To obtain the frequencies for each column, count is divided (with bsxfun) by the number of occurrences of N in each column.
The result in this example is
result =
0 0 0 NaN
0 0 0 NaN
0.6667 0.5000 1.0000 NaN
0.3333 0.5000 0 NaN
Note that the last column correctly contains NaNs because the frequency of the sought patterns is undefined for that column.