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dpb
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Re: subset of dataset
Posted:
Dec 20, 2012 2:03 PM
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On 12/20/2012 9:26 AM, Barry Shaw wrote:
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> If I want to pick out those patients Age = 38 I can:
>>> subset_Age38 = hospital(hospital.Age == 38,:)
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> If I want to pick out those patients Age = 39 I can:
>>> subset_Age39 = hospital(hospital.Age == 39,:)
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> If I want to pick out those patients Age = 38 AND 39 I try:
> subset_Age3839 = hospital(hospital.Age == [38 39],:)
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> but get the error
> Error using == Matrix dimensions must agree.
Correct...the syntax for that would be
subset_Age3839 = hospital(hospital.Age==38|hospital.Age==39,:)
> I can use the following work around, which gives me what I want:
>>> ages_to_view = [38 39];
>>> [refs] = find(ismember(hospital.Age,ages_to_view));
>>> subset_Age3839 = hospital(refs,:)
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> But is there a way to do this as I initially tried it? I don't want to
> use a 38 | 40, as I may have an awful lots of values to set as criteria.
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It's what ismember() and friends are for--to reduce the tedium of
individual conditional statements.
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