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Re: statistics across multiple dimensions
Posted:
Apr 20, 2011 7:01 PM
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Thanks. This works.
regs
bala
Doug Schwarz <see@sig.for.address.edu> wrote in message <see-DE124D.23454906042011@news.frontiernet.net>...
> In article
> <8c7d2400-2b78-4af7-b35b-6ad8d96f2064@e9g2000vbk.googlegroups.com>,
> TideMan <mulgor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 7, 12:10 pm, "Balachander Narasimhan"
> > <balxxxxxch...@whatever.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a 3D array. If I need the mean of all elements in two dimensions of
> > > this array, I can do something like
> > >
> > > mean(mean(a,1),2) to average over the first two dimensions of 3D array a
> > > lets say of size 5x5x5
> > >
> > > But I cannot do the same for variance. One of the options seems to be
> > >
> > > for k =1:5
> > > b = a(:,:,k);
> > > v(k) = var(reshape(b,25,1))
> > > end
> > >
> > > Is there a way to avoid this loop?
> >
> > You can do the same with var, only the dimension is the third
> > argument, not the second:
> > var(var(a,0,1),0,2)
>
> No, the mean of the mean is the mean of the whole matrix, but the
> variance of the variance is not the variance of the whole matrix.
>
> To the OP:
>
> a = rand(l,m,n);
> v = var(reshape(a,[],n));
>
> --
> Doug Schwarz
> dmschwarz&ieee,org
> Make obvious changes to get real email address.
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