The logical indices in position 1 contain a true value outside of the array bounds.

What does this error mean?

The logical indices in position 1 contain a true value outside of the array bounds.

Error in file (line 28)

class =

classify(Input(test,:),Input(train,:),Output(train,:));

thank you for your help

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

You don't give enough information to diagnose why this is happening in your code, but here is an example of that error and how it arises:

x = [2 3 5 7];

idx1 = [false true false true];
idx2 = [false true false true false];
idx3 = [false true false true false true];

x(idx1)

ans = 1×2

3 7

x(idx2)

ans = 1×2

3 7

x(idx3)

The logical indices contain a true value outside of the array bounds.

The last three lines of this code use logical indexing to access the element of the vector x. In general, logical indexing pulls out the values where the index it true.

Typically, the index would have the same number of elements as the vector, as is the case with idx1.

idx2 also works, because the "extra" element of the index -- the 5th one -- is false, and therefore does not attempt to access the 5th element of x (which does not exist.)

But idx3 gives an error, because it tries to access the 6th element of x, which does not exist. In other words, "The logical indices contain a true value outside of the array bounds." (In this case, a true value beyond element 4.)

[Claire R]

this is my code, i thought the error was because i put the output twice in the previous code that i posted so i tried to took it off but still got the same error.

rng ('default')
k = 10;
n = 500 % lengh of my dataset (11x500 double)
cv = cvpartition(n,'kfold', k);
cp = classperf (Output);
 for i = 1:k
     test = cv.test(i); 
     train = cv.training(i);
     class = classify(Input(test,:),Output(train,:));

[the cyclist]

Are you able to also upload your data in a MAT file, so that we can run your code? (You can use the paper clip icon in the INSERT section of the toolbar to attach files.)

It seems to me that my answer (which I think is arising via the possibility Walter suggested in his comment on his own answer) is probably correct. But we can't test that idea without the data.

[Claire R]

i have uploaded the data that i used

[the cyclist]

Is what you put in as "Output" in your code the variable "BCTable"? I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to put up a complete set of data/code that people can run and duplicate the error you are seeing, without all this guesswork.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to the Bioinformatics Toolbox, so I cannot run the classperf command.

Have you used the debugger at all? I would recommend stopping your code at the line that give the error, to see if you variables are the size you expect.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

It means that Output in your code is a row vector but you are accessing it as if it were either a column vector or a 2d array.

[Walter Roberson]

Another possibility is that when you used CV partition that you told it a size larger than your input

[Claire R]

hi, thank you for answering,i have posted the whole code, if it can help you better understand my error