Because for combinations of large numbers at times matlab replies NaN, the assignment is to write a program to compute combinations of 200 objects taken 90 at a time. Once this works we are to make it into a function y = comb(n,k).
This is what I have so far based on an example we were given of the probability that 2 people in a class have the same birthday.
This is the example:
nMax = 70; %maximum number of people in classroom
nArray = 1:nMax;
prevPnot = 1; %initialize probability
for iN = 1:nMax
Pnot = prevPnot*(365-iN+1)/365; %probability that no birthdays are the same
P(iN) = 1-Pnot; %probability that at least two birthdays are the same
prevPnot = Pnot;
end
plot(nArray, P, '.-')
xlabel('nb. of people')
ylabel('prob. that at least two have same birthday')
grid on
At this point I'm having trouble because I'm more familiar with java. This is what I have so far, and it isn't coming out at all.
k = 90;
n = 200;
nArray = 1:k;
prevPnot = 1;
for counter = 1:k
Pnot = (n-counter+1)/(prevPnot*(n-k-counter+1);
P(iN) = Pnot;
prevPnot = Pnot;
end
The point of the loop I wrote is to separate out each term
i.e. n/k*(n-k), times (n-counter)/(k-counter)*(n-k-counter), and so forth.
I'm also not entirely sure how to save a loop as a function in matlab.
To compute the number of combinations of n objects taken k at a time, you can use gammaln to compute the logarithm of the factorials in order to avoid overflow:
result = exp(gammaln(n+1)-gammaln(k+1)-gammaln(n-k+1));
Another approach is to remove terms that will cancel and then compute the result:
result = prod((n-k+1:n)./(1:k));
Related
How can I simulate this question using MATLAB?
Out of 100 apples, 10 are rotten. We randomly choose 5 apples without
replacement. What is the probability that there is at least one
rotten?
The Expected Answer
0.4162476
My Attempt:
r=0
for i=1:10000
for c=1:5
a = randi(1,100);
if a < 11
r=r+1;
end
end
end
r/10000
but it didn't work, so what would be a better way of doing it?
Use randperm to choose randomly without replacement:
A = false(1, 100);
A(1:10) = true;
r = 0;
for k = 1:10000
a = randperm(100, 5);
r = r + any(A(a));
end
result = r/10000;
Short answer:
Your problem follow an hypergeometric distribution (similar to a binomial distribution but without replacement), if you have the necessary toolbox you can simply use the probability density function of the hypergeometric distribution:
r = 1-hygepdf(0,100,10,5) % r = 0.4162
Since P(x>=1) = P(x=1) + P(x=2) + P(x=3) + P(x=4) + P(x=5) = 1-P(x=0)
Of course, here I calculate the exact probability, this is not an experimental result.
To get further:
Noticed that if you do not have access to hygepdf, you can easily write the function yourself by using binomial coefficient:
N = 100; K = 10;
n = 5; k = 0;
r = 1-(nchoosek(K,k)*nchoosek(N-K,n-k))/nchoosek(N,n) % r = 0.4162
You can also use the binomial probability density function, it is a bit more tricky (but also more intuitive):
r = 1-prod(binopdf(0,1,10./(100-[0:4])))
Here we compute the probability to obtain 0 rotten apple five time in a row, the probabily increase at every step since we remove 1 good juicy apple each time. And then, according to the above explaination, we take 1-P(x=0).
There are a couple of issues with your code. First of all, implicitly in what you wrote, you replace the apple after you look at it. When you generate the random number, you need to eliminate the possibility of choosing that number again.
I've rewritten your code to include better practices:
clear
n_runs = 1000;
success = zeros(n_runs, 1);
failure = zeros(n_runs, 1);
approach = zeros(n_runs, 1);
for ii = 1:n_runs
apples = 1:100;
a = randperm(100, 5);
if any(a < 11)
success(ii) = 1;
elseif a >= 11
failure(ii) = 1;
end
approach(ii) = sum(success)/(sum(success)+sum(failure));
end
figure; hold on
plot(approach)
title("r = "+ approach(end))
hold off
The results are stored in an array (called approach), rather than a single number being updated every time, which means you can see how quickly you approach the end value of r.
Another good habit is including clear at the beginning of any script, which reduces the possibility of an error occurring due to variables stored in the workspace.
I'm writing a program in matlab to observe how a function evolves in time. I'd like to set up a matrix that fills its first row with the initial function, and progressively fills more rows based off of a time derivative (that's dependent on the spatial derivative). The function is arbitrary, the program just needs to 'evolve' it. This is what I have so far:
xleft = -10;
xright = 10;
xsampling = 1000;
tmax = 1000;
tsampling = 1000;
dt = tmax/tsampling;
x = linspace(xleft,xright,xsampling);
t = linspace(0,tmax,tsampling);
funset = [exp(-(x.^2)/100);cos(x)]; %Test functions.
funsetvel = zeros(size(funset)); %The functions velocities.
spacetimevalue1 = zeros(length(x), length(t));
spacetimevalue2 = zeros(length(x), length(t));
% Loop that fills the first functions spacetime matrix.
for j=1:length(t)
funsetvel(1,j) = diff(funset(1,:),x,2);
spacetimevalue1(:,j) = funsetvel(1,j)*dt + funset(1,j);
end
This outputs the error, Difference order N must be a positive integer scalar. I'm unsure what this means. I'm fairly new to Matlab. I will exchange the Euler-method for another algorithm once I can actually get some output along the proper expectation. Aside from the error associated with taking the spatial derivative, do you all have any suggestions on how to evaluate this sort of process? Thank you.
I have a set of three vectors (stored into a 3xN matrix) which are 'entangled' (e.g. some value in the second row should be in the third row and vice versa). This 'entanglement' is based on looking at the figure in which alpha2 is plotted. To separate the vector I use a difference based approach where I calculate the difference of one value with respect the three next values (e.g. comparing (1,i) with (:,i+1)). Then I take the minimum and store that. The method works to separate two of the three vectors, but not for the last.
I was wondering if you guys can share your ideas with me how to solve this problem (if possible). I have added my coded below.
Thanks in advance!
Problem in figures:
clear all; close all; clc;
%%
alpha2 = [-23.32 -23.05 -22.24 -20.91 -19.06 -16.70 -13.83 -10.49 -6.70;
-0.46 -0.33 0.19 2.38 5.44 9.36 14.15 19.80 26.32;
-1.58 -1.13 0.06 0.70 1.61 2.78 4.23 5.99 8.09];
%%% Original
figure()
hold on
plot(alpha2(1,:))
plot(alpha2(2,:))
plot(alpha2(3,:))
%%% Store start values
store1(1,1) = alpha2(1,1);
store2(1,1) = alpha2(2,1);
store3(1,1) = alpha2(3,1);
for i=1:size(alpha2,2)-1
for j=1:size(alpha2,1)
Alpha1(j,i) = abs(store1(1,i)-alpha2(j,i+1));
Alpha2(j,i) = abs(store2(1,i)-alpha2(j,i+1));
Alpha3(j,i) = abs(store3(1,i)-alpha2(j,i+1));
[~, I] = min(Alpha1(:,i));
store1(1,i+1) = alpha2(I,i+1);
[~, I] = min(Alpha2(:,i));
store2(1,i+1) = alpha2(I,i+1);
[~, I] = min(Alpha3(:,i));
store3(1,i+1) = alpha2(I,i+1);
end
end
%%% Plot to see if separation worked
figure()
hold on
plot(store1)
plot(store2)
plot(store3)
Solution using extrapolation via polyfit:
The idea is pretty simple: Iterate over all positions i and use polyfit to fit polynomials of degree d to the d+1 values from F(:,i-(d+1)) up to F(:,i). Use those polynomials to extrapolate the function values F(:,i+1). Then compute the permutation of the real values F(:,i+1) that fits those extrapolations best. This should work quite well, if there are only a few functions involved. There is certainly some room for improvement, but for your simple setting it should suffice.
function F = untangle(F, maxExtrapolationDegree)
%// UNTANGLE(F) untangles the functions F(i,:) via extrapolation.
if nargin<2
maxExtrapolationDegree = 4;
end
extrapolate = #(f) polyval(polyfit(1:length(f),f,length(f)-1),length(f)+1);
extrapolateAll = #(F) cellfun(extrapolate, num2cell(F,2));
fitCriterion = #(X,Y) norm(X(:)-Y(:),1);
nFuncs = size(F,1);
nPoints = size(F,2);
swaps = perms(1:nFuncs);
errorOfFit = zeros(1,size(swaps,1));
for i = 1:nPoints-1
nextValues = extrapolateAll(F(:,max(1,i-(maxExtrapolationDegree+1)):i));
for j = 1:size(swaps,1)
errorOfFit(j) = fitCriterion(nextValues, F(swaps(j,:),i+1));
end
[~,j_bestSwap] = min(errorOfFit);
F(:,i+1) = F(swaps(j_bestSwap,:),i+1);
end
Initial solution: (not that pretty - Skip this part)
This is a similar solution that tries to minimize the sum of the derivatives up to some degree of the vector valued function F = #(j) alpha2(:,j). It does so by stepping through the positions i and checks all possible permutations of the coordinates of i to get a minimal seminorm of the function F(1:i).
(I'm actually wondering right now if there is any canonical mathematical way to define the seminorm so we get our expected results... I initially was going for the H^1 and H^2 seminorms, but they didn't quite work...)
function F = untangle(F)
nFuncs = size(F,1);
nPoints = size(F,2);
seminorm = #(x,i) sum(sum(abs(diff(x(:,1:i),1,2)))) + ...
sum(sum(abs(diff(x(:,1:i),2,2)))) + ...
sum(sum(abs(diff(x(:,1:i),3,2)))) + ...
sum(sum(abs(diff(x(:,1:i),4,2))));
doSwap = #(x,swap,i) [x(:,1:i-1), x(swap,i:end)];
swaps = perms(1:nFuncs);
normOfSwap = zeros(1,size(swaps,1));
for i = 2:nPoints
for j = 1:size(swaps,1)
normOfSwap(j) = seminorm(doSwap(F,swaps(j,:),i),i);
end
[~,j_bestSwap] = min(normOfSwap);
F = doSwap(F,swaps(j_bestSwap,:),i);
end
Usage:
The command alpha2 = untangle(alpha2); will untangle your functions:
It should even work for more complicated data, like these shuffled sine-waves:
nPoints = 100;
nFuncs = 5;
t = linspace(0, 2*pi, nPoints);
F = bsxfun(#(a,b) sin(a*b), (1:nFuncs).', t);
for i = 1:nPoints
F(:,i) = F(randperm(nFuncs),i);
end
Remark: I guess if you already know that your functions will be quadratic or some other special form, RANSAC would be a better idea for larger number of functions. This could also be useful if the functions are not given with the same x-value spacing.
This question is from chegg.com.
Given a vector a of N elements a_{n},n =1,2,...,N, the simple moving average of m sequential elements of this vector is defined as
mu(j) = mu(j-1) + (a(m+j-1)-a(j-1))/m for j = 2,3,...,(N-m+1)
where
mu(1) = sum(a(k))/m for k = 1,2,...,m
Write a script that computes these moving averages when a is given by a=5*(1+rand(N,1)), where rand generates uniformly distributed random numbers. Assume that N=100 and m=6. Plot the results using plot(j,mu(j)) for j=1,2,...,N-m+1.
My current code is below, but I'm not sure where to go from here or if it's even right.
close all
clear all
clc
N = 100;
m = 6;
a = 5*(1+rand(N,1));
mu = zeros(N-m+1,1);
mu(1) = sum(a(1:m));
for j=2
mu(j) = mu(j-1) + (a-a)/m
end
plot(1:N-m+1,mu)
I'll step you through the modifications.
Firstly, mu(1) was not fully defined. The equation given is slightly incorrect, but this is what it should be:
mu(1) = sum(a(1:m))/m;
then the for loop has to go from j=2 to j=N-m+1
for j=2:N-m+1
and at each step, mu(j) is given by this formula, the same as given in the question
mu(j) = mu(j-1) + (a(m+j-1)-a(j-1))/m
And that's all you need to change!
So I have a list of 190 numbers ranging from 1:19 (each number is repeated 10 times) that I need to sample 10 at a time. Within each sample of 10, I don't want the numbers to repeat, I tried incorporating a while loop, but computation time was way too long. So far I'm at the point where I can generate the numbers and see if there are repetitions within each subset. Any ideas?
N=[];
for i=1:10
N=[N randperm(19)];
end
B=[];
for j=1:10
if length(unique(N(j*10-9:j*10)))<10
B=[B 1];
end
end
sum(B)
Below is an updated version of the code. this might be a little more clear in showing what I want. (19 targets taken 10 at a time without repetition until all 19 targets have been repeated 10 times)
nTargs = 19;
pairs = nchoosek(1:nTargs, 10);
nPairs = size(pairs, 1);
order = randperm(nPairs);
values=randsample(order,19);
targs=pairs(values,:);
Alltargs=false;
while ~Alltargs
targs=pairs(randsample(order,19),:);
B=[];
for i=1:19
G=length(find(targs==i))==10;
B=[B G];
end
if sum(B)==19
Alltargs=true;
end
end
Here are some very simple steps to do this, basically you just shuffle the vector once, and then you grab the last 10 unique values:
v = repmat(1:19,1,10);
v = v(randperm(numel(v)));
[a idx]=unique(v);
result = unique(v);
v(idx)=[];
The algorithm should be fairly efficient, if you want to do the next 10, just run the last part again and combine the results into a totalResult
You want to sample the numbers 1:19 randomly in blocks of 10 without repetitions. The Matlab function 'randsample' has an optional 'replacement' argument which you can set to 'false' if you do not want repetitions. For example:
N = [];
replacement = false;
for i = 1:19
N = [N randsample(19,10,replacement)];
end
This generates a 19 x 10 matrix of random integers in the range [1,..,19] without repetitions within each column.
Edit: Here is a solution that addresses the requirement that each of the integers [1,..,19] occurs exactly 10 times, in addition to no repetition within each column / sample:
nRange = 19; nRep = 10;
valueRep = true; % true while there are repetitions
nLoops = 0; % count the number of iterations
while valueRep
l = zeros(1,nRep);
v = [];
for m = 1:nRep
v = [v, randperm(nRange,nRange)];
end
m1 = reshape(v,nRep,nRange);
for n = 1:nRep
l(n) = length(unique(m1(:,n)));
end
if all(l == nRep)
valueRep = false;
end
nLoops = nLoops + 1;
end
result = m1;
For the parameters in the question it takes about 300 iterations to find a result.
I think you should approach this constructively.
It's easy to initially find a 19 groups that fulfill your conditions just by rearranging the series 1:19: series1 = repmat(1:19,1,10); and rearranged= reshape(series1,10,19)
then shuffle the values
I would select two random columns copy them and switch the values at two random positions
then make a test if it fulfills your condition - like: test = #(x) numel(unique(x))==10 - if yes replace your columns
just keep shuffling till your time runs out or you are happy
of course you might come up with more efficient shuffling or testing
I was given another solution through the MATLAB forum that works pretty well (Credit to Niklas Nylen over on the MATLAB forum). Computation time is pretty low too. It basically shuffles the numbers until there are no repetitions within every 10 values. Thanks all for your help.
y = repmat(1:19,1,10);
% Run enough iterations to get the output random enough, I selected 100000
for ii = 1:100000
% Select random index
index = randi(length(y)-1);
% Check if it is allowed to switch places
if y(index)~=y(min(index+10, length(y))) && y(index+1)~=y(max(1,index-9))
% Make the switch
yTmp = y(index);
y(index)=y(index+1);
y(index+1)=yTmp;
end
end