dear stackoverflow members, i have a matlab homework. and im having trouble understanding how this piece of code:
m = [ones(1,t0/(3*ts)),-2*ones(1,t0/(3*ts)),zeros(1,t0/(3*ts)+1)];
was put and what does it do? .
It is supposed to plot this function: http://s22.postimg.org/8e3ieonoh/Untitled.gif
Here's the full code:
t0 = 0.15;
ts = 0.001;
fc = 250;
fs = 1/ts;
df = 0.3;
t = [0:ts:t0];
m = [ones(1,t0/(3*ts)),-2*ones(1,t0/(3*ts)),zeros(1,t0/(3*ts)+1)];
Thanks.
This creates the time sequence as a long array. ones(1,t0/(3*ts)) means when t<=t0/3, the function obtain 1; -2*ones(1,t0/(3*ts)) indicates the second value in the original function within the range of [t0/3,t0/3*2]. zeros(1,t0/(3*ts)+1) is the rest part of function. The time interval between two consecutive points in your curve is ts.
To avoid the warning, use
m = [ones(1,floor(t0/(3*ts))),-2*ones(1,floor(t0/(3*ts))),zeros(1,floor(t0/(3*ts))+1)];
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I would like to calculate standard errors of contrasts in a linear mixed-effect model (fitlme) in MATLAB.
y = randn(100,1);
area = randi([1 3],100,1);
mea = randi([1 3],100,1);
sub = randi([1 5],100,1);
data = array2table([area mea sub y],'VariableNames',{'area','mea','sub','y'});
data.area = nominal(data.area,{'A','B','C'});
data.mea = nominal(data.mea,{'Baseline','+1h','+8h'});
data.sub = nominal(data.sub);
lme = fitlme(data,'y~area*mea+(1|sub)')
% Plot Area A on three measurements
coefv = table2array(dataset2table(lme.Coefficients(:,2)));
bar([coefv(1),sum(coefv([1 4])),sum(coefv([1 5]))])
Calculating the contrast means, e.g. area1-measurement1 vs area1-measurement2 vs area1-measurement3 can be done by summing the related coefficient parameters. However, does anyone know how to calculate the related standard errors?
I know a hypothesis test can be done by coefTest(lme,H), but only p values can be extracted.
An example for Area A is shown below:
I have resolved this issue!
Matlab uses the 'predict' function to estimate contrasts. To find confidence intervals for area A, at measurement +8h in this particular example use:
dsnew = dataset();
dsnew.area = nominal('A');
dsnew.mea = nominal('+8h');
dsnew.sub = nominal(1);
[yh yCI] = predict(lme,dsnew,'Conditional',false)
A result is shown below:
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.
I've been trying to calculate the chi squared test on some lab measurements for school. for some reason, i keep getting a constant result, no matter what the ranges i'm trying to calculate over.
The function i'm trying to test, in matlab, is:
ev_g = #(i,b,x_i) (i.*sin(pi.*b.*x_i)./(pi.*b.*x_i)).^2
my input is the x_i vector, and i'm trying to find the b and i that fit the best to the measurements. the code which is malfunctioning is:
function [ chi2_min, b_final, i_final ] = chi2_general( func,var, guess_1,guess_2,O_i,error,limit1,limit2,step1,step2 )
i=guess_1;
chi2_min = 999999;
b_final = 0;
i_final = 0;
while i<limit1
b=guess_2;
while b<limit2
chi2_temp = sum((O_i-func(var,i,b)).^2./(error.^2));
if chi2_temp<=chi2_min
chi2_min = chi2_temp;
b_final = b;
i_final = i;
end
b=b+step2;
end
i = i+step1;
end
fprintf('%f\n%f\n%f', chi2_min, b_final, i_final);
end
Thanks for helping!
It's difficult to understand where the malfunction is with knowing the parameters you are using for all function parameters, but some simple observation reviewing the code: You are defining your function with the parameters (i,b,x_i) and then you call it with the parameters (var,i,b), which probably should be (i,b,var)?
I’m currently a Physics student and for several weeks have been compiling data related to ‘Quantum Entanglement’. I’ve now got to a point where I have to plot my data (which should resemble a cos² graph - and does) to a sort of “best fit” cos² graph. The lab script says the following:
A more precise determination of the visibility V (this is basically how 'clean' the data is) follows from the best fit to the measured data using the function:
f(b) = A/2[1-Vsin(b-b(center)/P)]
Granted this probably doesn’t mean much out of context, but essentially A is the amplitude, b is an angle and P is the periodicity. Hence this is also a “wave” like the experimental data I have found.
From this I understand, as previously mentioned, I am making a “best fit” curve. However, I have been told that this isn’t possible with Excel and that the best approach is Matlab.
I know intermediate JavaScript but do not know Matlab and was hoping for some direction.
Is there a tutorial I can read for this? Is it possible for someone to go through it with me? I really have no idea what it entails, so any feed back would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
Initial steps
I guess we should begin by getting a representation in Matlab of the function that you're trying to model. A direct translation of your formula looks like this:
function y = targetfunction(A,V,P,bc,b)
y = (A/2) * (1 - V * sin((b-bc) / P));
end
Getting hold of the data
My next step is going to be to generate some data to work with (you'll use your own data, naturally). So here's a function that generates some noisy data. Notice that I've supplied some values for the parameters.
function [y b] = generateData(npoints,noise)
A = 2;
V = 1;
P = 0.7;
bc = 0;
b = 2 * pi * rand(npoints,1);
y = targetfunction(A,V,P,bc,b) + noise * randn(npoints,1);
end
The function rand generates random points on the interval [0,1], and I multiplied those by 2*pi to get points randomly on the interval [0, 2*pi]. I then applied the target function at those points, and added a bit of noise (the function randn generates normally distributed random variables).
Fitting parameters
The most complicated function is the one that fits a model to your data. For this I use the function fminunc, which does unconstrained minimization. The routine looks like this:
function [A V P bc] = bestfit(y,b)
x0(1) = 1; %# A
x0(2) = 1; %# V
x0(3) = 0.5; %# P
x0(4) = 0; %# bc
f = #(x) norm(y - targetfunction(x(1),x(2),x(3),x(4),b));
x = fminunc(f,x0);
A = x(1);
V = x(2);
P = x(3);
bc = x(4);
end
Let's go through line by line. First, I define the function f that I want to minimize. This isn't too hard. To minimize a function in Matlab, it needs to take a single vector as a parameter. Therefore we have to pack our four parameters into a vector, which I do in the first four lines. I used values that are close, but not the same, as the ones that I used to generate the data.
Then I define the function I want to minimize. It takes a single argument x, which it unpacks and feeds to the targetfunction, along with the points b in our dataset. Hopefully these are close to y. We measure how far they are from y by subtracting from y and applying the function norm, which squares every component, adds them up and takes the square root (i.e. it computes the root mean square error).
Then I call fminunc with our function to be minimized, and the initial guess for the parameters. This uses an internal routine to find the closest match for each of the parameters, and returns them in the vector x.
Finally, I unpack the parameters from the vector x.
Putting it all together
We now have all the components we need, so we just want one final function to tie them together. Here it is:
function master
%# Generate some data (you should read in your own data here)
[f b] = generateData(1000,1);
%# Find the best fitting parameters
[A V P bc] = bestfit(f,b);
%# Print them to the screen
fprintf('A = %f\n',A)
fprintf('V = %f\n',V)
fprintf('P = %f\n',P)
fprintf('bc = %f\n',bc)
%# Make plots of the data and the function we have fitted
plot(b,f,'.');
hold on
plot(sort(b),targetfunction(A,V,P,bc,sort(b)),'r','LineWidth',2)
end
If I run this function, I see this being printed to the screen:
>> master
Local minimum found.
Optimization completed because the size of the gradient is less than
the default value of the function tolerance.
A = 1.991727
V = 0.979819
P = 0.695265
bc = 0.067431
And the following plot appears:
That fit looks good enough to me. Let me know if you have any questions about anything I've done here.
I am a bit surprised as you mention f(a) and your function does not contain an a, but in general, suppose you want to plot f(x) = cos(x)^2
First determine for which values of x you want to make a plot, for example
xmin = 0;
stepsize = 1/100;
xmax = 6.5;
x = xmin:stepsize:xmax;
y = cos(x).^2;
plot(x,y)
However, note that this approach works just as well in excel, you just have to do some work to get your x values and function in the right cells.