How to remove outliers from 2D array
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I have been trying to solve a simple problem for a while now and can't seem to succeed other than brute force method.
I have a 2D array. I want to do statistics on it (i.e., compute mean and std dev). However, there are occassionally invalid values in the array (say below threshold1 and above threshold2). I'd like to either replace those values with null's which will make mean and std ignore them or some other method to ignore them.
For instance, consider: a = reshape(rand(100,1),25,4); a(a>0.9) = 10; a(a<0.1) = -10;
I would like to then compute things like: b = mean(a,2);
but exclude the elements > 1 and < 0 in the computation. If I could exclude them, then elements of b would be averages of 0 to 4 numbers.
Using things like: a(a<0.1) = [];
doesn't work because it turns the 2D array into 1D which can't be reshaped back to original format.
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Jim Hokanson
2013년 7월 25일
Replace invalid values with NaN.
You can then use the function nanmean with the stats toolbox or there is a FEX posting with a similar function.
Good luck
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Andrei Bobrov
2013년 7월 25일
l1 = a <= 1 & a >= 0;
n = sum(l1,2)./n;
mn = sum(a.*l1,2)./n;
sd = sqrt(sum((bsxfun(@minus,a,mn).*l1).^2,2)./n);
OR, if you have Statistics Toolbox
a1 = a;
a1(~l1) = nan;
mn2 = nanmean(a1,2);
sd2 = nanstd(a1,1,2);
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Maziyar
2015년 7월 28일
I think it would be better if you replace outliers with the mean value of the matrix. This is more accurate from statistical point of view than ignoring outliers. However it might increase the running time.
for i = 1 : numel(Matrix) if Matrix(i) > mean2(Matrix) Mask(i) = mean2(Matrix) ; end end
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