How to create a sparse matrix with such specifications?

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I have to create a sparse matrix whose support is chosen uniformly at random and whose non-zero entries are independent and uniformly distributed in the range [-50,50].
Please help me out...

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Richard Brown
Richard Brown on 9 Aug 2013
Edited: Richard Brown on 11 Aug 2013
edit This version is wrong, but leaving so comment below makes sense
density = 0.01; % For example
m = 10000; n = 10000;
100 * sprand(m, n, density) - 50;
edit This one is better! Basically the same as what James wrote
density = 0.01;
m = 10000; n = 10000;
A = sprand(m, n, density);
A = 100*A - 50*spones(A);
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James Tursa
James Tursa on 9 Aug 2013
Edited: James Tursa on 9 Aug 2013
The -50 will get applied to all elements, not just the non-zero elements. I think you need something like this instead:
s = sprand(m, n, density);
s = 100 * s - 50 * logical(s);
Or maybe use spfun. E.g.,
s = sprand(m, n, density);
f = @(x)(100*x-50);
s = spfun(f,s);
Richard Brown
Richard Brown on 11 Aug 2013
haha, yes, good point! I'm too used to working in C and just looping through the nonzeros. Edited answer accordingly :)

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