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Re: Is there a better way to count number of occurances of string when grouping?
Posted:
Mar 20, 2012 6:11 PM
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> I have a dataset svdatm with columns:
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> % dnum (datenum)
> % symid (symbol id - a cell array)
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> I would like to find the count or number of elements (i.e., symid)
> that occur each day.
In addition to the other suggestions, consider trying
crosstab(svdatm.dnum, svdatm.symid)
I don't know if it would be any faster, and it might require too much memory
if there are lots of unique symid values, but it's a thought.
-- Tom
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