finding only unique values
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Suppose you have a column vector, the values are integers(in order) but some of them are repeated, e.g. it could be [1,1,1,1,2,3,3,4,5,5,5,5,5] I want to find the indices of unique values e.g. the index of 2 and 4 in the aforementioned example. the unique function in matlab returns on top of truly unique the first value of any nonunique value, so it would return the index of the first 1, the first 3 and first 5 but I don't want those
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the cyclist
on 22 Aug 2013
Edited: the cyclist
on 22 Aug 2013
Maybe call these the "singleton" values. Here's one way:
x = [1,1,1,1,2,3,3,4,5,5,5,5,5];
unique_x = unique(x);
count_x = hist(x,unique_x);
singleton_x = unique_x(count_x==1)
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David Sanchez
on 22 Aug 2013
a=[1,1,1,1,2,3,3,4,5,5,5,5,5];
x = unique(a)
y = histc(a,x)==1;
lonely_values = find ( y == 1 )
or:
lonely_values = find ( (histc(a,unique(a))==1) == 1 )
lonely_values =
2 4
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 22 Aug 2013
[ii,jj]=sort(x);
out=sort(jj(strfind(logical([1 diff(ii) 1]),[true,true])))
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