Can we remove a bar from histogram which drawn using 'hist' function?

Hi, I have a data and i tried to calculate mean and standard deviation for that data values. where lots of zeros are there and i don't need to include that zeros for my data range. my data range is in Matrix.

I need to calculate mean and standard deviation only for data except zero values. Please help on this problem.

[José-Luis]

Your actual question has nothing to do with your header, as far as I can see.

[Image Analyst]

I think he has a huge bar for the "zero" bin and he wants to suppress that bar because it makes all the other bars so short. He can either set the "counts" value to zero for that bin, or just avoid seeing any zeros in the first place when he calculates the histogram, like you suggested.

[José-Luis]

Comprehension dawned upon me. Thanks.

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

 idx = your_data ~=0;

You can now calculate the mean and standard deviation:

 your_mean = mean(data(idx));
 your_std = mean(data(idx));

[Daniel Shub]

I wonder if sum(x)/(length(x)-sum(x == 0)) would be faster for the mean.

[José-Luis]

It would appear so

 x=rand(100000,1) > 0.5;

 tic
 mean(x(x~=0));
 toc
 tic
 sum(x)/(length(x)-sum(x == 0));
 toc

 Elapsed time is 0.002031 seconds.
 Elapsed time is 0.000810 seconds.

[Daniel Shub]

I will have to think about how to do the same thing for std.