Selecting Elements of a Matrix by Indexing with a Vector
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Darren Wethington
on 23 Apr 2020
Commented: Ameer Hamza
on 23 Apr 2020
I have a 100x3 matrix and I'd like to select one element from each row to form a 100x1 vector. Given a vector of 100 indeces between 1-3, how can I obtain this? The code below is what I thought should work, but instead produces a 100x100 matrix (concatenation of each 100x1 vector generated by each value of indx).
A = rand(100,3);
indx = randi([1 3],100,1); % for each row, which column do I want to pull the element from?
B = A(:,indx); % B is 100x100, I want 100x1
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Ameer Hamza
on 23 Apr 2020
Edited: Ameer Hamza
on 23 Apr 2020
See sub2ind() function.
A = rand(100,3);
indx = randi([1 3],100,1);
idx = sub2ind(size(A), (1:size(A,1)).', indx);
B = A(idx);
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Ameer Hamza
on 23 Apr 2020
I think sub2ind is the simplest way to do such a thing. Following avoids sub2ind, but I am not sure you can call it straightforward
A = rand(100,3);
indx = randi([1 3],100,1);
ind = (1:size(A,1)).' + (indx-1).*size(A,1);
B = A(ind);
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