keep repeated x values and average y values

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Dear all
I have the following data:
x=[4.1 2.7 3.2 2.5 4.1 2.5 0 5 6.1 2.5];
y=[10 16 11 24 8 18 20 7 6 4];
I would like to take repeated values only once that mean x should become:
xn=
0
2.5
2.7
3.2
4.1
5.
6.1
the correspodnig values of y should be the average:
yn=
20
15.33333333
16
11
9
7
6
that means 4.1 is rpeated twice: x(1)=4.1 x(5)=4.1
and thus the corresponding y data are: y(1)=10 y(5)=8
in this case only one 4.1 value is keept but y should be averaged: (10+8)/2 = 9
your helps are highly appreciated.
cheers

Answers (1)

Nade Sritanyaratana
Nade Sritanyaratana on 6 Aug 2014
You may want to consider using accumarray .
The following code uses unique to find all unique values of x and also an inverse mapping ix from the unique array to the original array index. It then uses accumarray to average all y data that has matching ix:
x=[4.1 2.7 3.2 2.5 4.1 2.5 0 5 6.1 2.5];
y=[10 16 11 24 8 18 20 7 6 4];
[xn, ~, ix] = unique(x)
yn = accumarray(ix,y,[],@mean)
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Adam
Adam on 7 Aug 2014
Hi,
this eamaple is not working:
x=[4.1 2.7 3.2 2.5 4.1 2.5 0 5 6.1 2.5];
y=[10 16 11 24 8 18 20 7 6 4];
[xn, ~, ix] = unique(x)
cheers yn = accumarray(ix,y,[],@mean)
ix and y in this example have the same size i.e. 10
Nade Sritanyaratana
Nade Sritanyaratana on 7 Aug 2014
I am not getting the same error using MATLAB R2014a. It's possible that one or more of the functions (unique, accumarray, or mean) are being shadowed. You can check this by running "which -all {function_name}" on the command window.

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