Replacing a numberless string in matrix with a number
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Hello,
I have a matrix that contains a column with participants' gender written as strings ("female" vs" "male").
I would like to change females to 1 and males to 0. How would I do that?
Thank you!
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Stephen23
2021년 1월 27일
Where V is that column:
V = ["female";"male";"female";"male";"male";"female"]
X = strcmpi(V,"female")
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Stephen23
2021년 1월 27일
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2021년 1월 27일
For the values 1..N I would simply use the second output of ismember.
If you want to specify totally arbitrary values, then probably the easiest way would be to define a vector of those arbitrary values and then use indexing (e.g. the second output of ismember) to select from that vector.
You will find num2cell useful for both of these.
Steven Lord
2021년 1월 27일
I would likely use a string array.
colors = ["green"; "blue"; "yellow"; "purple"];
% Make some sample data
ind = randi(numel(colors), 10, 1);
arrayOfColors = colors(ind);
whichColor = NaN(size(arrayOfColors));
for c = 1:numel(colors)
whichColor(arrayOfColors == colors(c)) = c;
end
% Display results side by side
results = table(ind, arrayOfColors, whichColor)
This also works if arrayOfColors was a categorical array, though for a categorical array there's an easier way to report which element of the valueset was used to generate each element of the categorical array by just using the double function.
colorCats = categorical(arrayOfColors, colors);
results.colorCats = colorCats;
results.whichCat = double(colorCats)
all(whichColor == ind)
all(results.whichCat == ind)
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Stephen23
2021년 1월 27일
Without the loop:
[~,whichColor] = ismember(arrayOfColors,colors)
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