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Re: Binary or Logical Selection : Given an array A and a binary or logical vector S, how do I select the rows of A when S = 1 or True ?
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Sep 22, 2012 6:33 PM
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On 2012-09-22 17:13:24 -0300, dr.beauwebber@googlemail.com said:
> Given a 3 column array A of x,y,z numbers, defining a set of spatial
> coordinates, and a binary or logical selection vector S (with as many
> elements as rows in A) :
>
> How do I express the operation of selecting an array R with the set of
> those co-ordinates in A where S is 1 (or true) ?
>
> In Apl I write this as R ? S /[1] A .
>
> But a referee of a paper is asking that I express this in standard
> maths, and I have not yet managed to find an appropriate mathematical
> expression.
> Cheers for any help,
> Beau
Let S be the set of indices you want. The you can talk about its
entries as subscripted
values. To get the rows of A you then needed subscripted subscripts.
The question is where
do you do the colapsing. S does the job!
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