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I have a matrix that is 16x8. I need to take the mean value of all of the values from the 3rd to the 8th column. How could I do this?
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Cedric
on 18 Apr 2013
What ave you tried so far?
I would recommend the official documentation:
Under MATLAB, you could get..
The first two references will teach you how to index blocks of matrices. It's a good investment of your time to train a bit indexing. I am sure that after no more than 20-30 minutes spent on these references, you will know how to extract the 3rd to the 8th column of your matrix. Once you are able to do this, refer to the following example:
M = [1 2 3; 4 5 6] ;
mean(M(:)) % Provides the mean of all elements in M.
Type
doc mean
and you will see that it is applied along a specific dimension (that can be specified). Then type
M(:)
to see what it does and understand why we pass it to MEAN.
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the cyclist
on 18 Apr 2013
Edited: the cyclist
on 18 Apr 2013
If you need the mean of each column, then
>> M = mean(x(:,3:8))
If you need the mean of the values in those columns, all together, then one way is
>> subMatrix = x(:,3:8);
>> M = mean(subMatrix(:));
where x is your original matrix.
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