Is there a better way to compute metrics on labeled array elements.
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For example, I have a 1d double array 'data' and a 1d cell array of strings called 'labels'. For each unique label I want the mean of the data. The best I have come up with is below. I don't believe this is fully vectorized. Is there a better way?
%%make sample dataset
n = 1000;
data = rand(n,1);
labels = char(randsample(97:122,n,true)');%[a-z]
%%get means for each label
[uniLab,~,labIdx] = unique(labels,'stable');% stable for speed
mu = arrayfun(@(x) mean(data(labIdx==x)),1:numel(uniLab));
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Walter Roberson
on 17 Jun 2018
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Walter Roberson
on 17 Jun 2018
The last step of your code can be replaced by
accumarray(labIdx, data, [], @mean)
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