Define new variables to each instance of a string of repetitive values
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Jessica Kendall-Bar
am 27 Jun. 2018
Kommentiert: Jessica Kendall-Bar
am 28 Jun. 2018
I would like to create a variable for each instance where I have a series of uninterrupted, repeated values. For example, one of my data columns is a behavioral code timeseries where 0 is when an animal is on the surface and 1 is when the animal is underwater (see below). I'd like to obtain the indices of the first dive (in this case (5:8)), the second dive (in this case (16:19)), the third dive, etc. so that I can plot each dive v. time elapsed, make these separate variables, and run analyses on each dive.
dive = [0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0]
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Matt Macaulay
am 28 Jun. 2018
Bearbeitet: Matt Macaulay
am 28 Jun. 2018
The RunLength function on file exchange would be great for this. You could use it like this on the dive variable in the question:
[B, N, IB] = RunLength(dive);
% IB is an array of the dive start times (indexes)
IB = IB(B>0);
% N is an array of the dive lengths
N = N(B>0);
% Plot the dive start times against the dive lengths
plot(IB, N, 'kx')
xlabel('Start Time')
ylabel('Dive length')
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Stephen23
am 28 Jun. 2018
"I've never downloaded and used a function before"
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If the submission contains MATLAB code then it is ready to use. If it contains some mex code (as this submssion does) then this must be compiled for your specific PC: Jan Simon normally writes some self-compiling code, that automagically compiles the first time it is called.
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Walter Roberson
am 28 Jun. 2018
mask = [false, dive.', false];
starts = strfind(mask, [0 1]);
stops = strfind(mask, [1 0]) - 1;
divetimes = arrayfun(@(startidx, stopidx) times(startidx:stopidx), 'uniform', 0);
Now starts is a vector of the indices at which each dive started, and stops is a vector of corresponding indices at which each dive stopped. It is assumed that before and after the recorded information that they are above water.
divetimes() will be a cell array of times extracted from your times vector -- for example you might use this if your recordings are not at uniform time intervals.
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