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How to normalize parts of matrix elements?

To normalize the last 2 or more columns of a matrix, ...
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1answer
41 views

Partial row reduction of a matrix

I have an $m\times n$ matrix (presumably of full rank) with $m>n$, and I would like to row reduce it, but leave the last column unreduced; that is, I want to get output on the form $\pmatrix{ 1 ...
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Matrix Rotation

If I have a 2 D matrix of any size say $\left( \begin{array}{ccc} 72 & 32 & 64 \\ 18 & 8 & 16 \\ 63 & 28 & 56 \\ \end{array} \right)$ $\left( \begin{array}{cc} 72 & ...
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Convenient methods to sum select rows (or cols) of a matrix? [duplicate]

What are some convenient methods to sum selected rows or columns in a matrix? This question Summing along rows or columns of a matrix only addresses how to sun entire rows or columns ie, by level. ...
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199 views

Translating MATLAB's cell2mat into Mathematica

How I can define a function in Mathematica such that it acts same as the cell2mat command in MATLAB? Example (in MATLAB): ...
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2answers
85 views

How do I divide the columns of a matrix by the sum of its elements?

I am trying to create a transition matrix for a network. In order to do this, I need to sum down the column (the out degree), and then divide the column by the out degree in order to normalize it. ...
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1answer
78 views

Dynamic List Building and Exporting [closed]

My ultimate goal is to have a text file that contains the following information in the following format exported to a text file: ...
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1answer
116 views

Sorting a matrix alphanumerically

Somewhat related to Sort matrix by columns and rows without changing them, but more general. I'd like to sort a square matrix (a 3 by 3 in my case, but surely the general solution will treat any), ...
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3answers
123 views

Convert coefficients of polynomials into a matrix

I have several sets of 5 polynomials of the form: ...
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1answer
38 views

Replace a specified portion of an array with elements from another smaller array

This may be a trivial question, but I have been at it for a couple of hours and I have not made much progress. I have a 10 x 10 array (T) that I have used to generate an 8 x 8 array (Q). I want to ...
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3answers
126 views

Multiply a list of matrices by a list of vectors

How does one multiply a list of matrices by a list of vectors, elementwise? For example, multiplying ...
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2answers
203 views

Speed up 4D matrix/array generation

I have to fill a 4D array, whose entries are $\mathrm{sinc}\left[j(a-b)^2+j(c-d)^2-\phi\right]$ for a fixed value of $\phi$ (normally -15) and a fixed value of $j$ (normally about 0.00005). The way ...
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1answer
109 views

Discrete 3D plots of median ratios of two 2D matrices of lists of values

Lets say I have 2 2D arrays where each cell contains a list of values: Example: ...
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1answer
66 views

Efficiently finding the maximum value of a column in a matrix

Imagine I have a matrix of the following form: TestArray = $((a_1,b_1,...),(a_2,b_2,...),(a_3,b_3,...),...)$, where a specific example might be: TestArray = ...
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1answer
108 views

RowReduce Problem

Here are two examples: RowReduce[{{3, 1, a}, {2, 1, b}}] evaluates to {{1, 0, a - b}, {0, 1, -2 a + 3 b}} but ...
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4answers
170 views

Generating all matrices with 1 (possibly) replaced by -1

I have a matrix $M$, whose dimension I am unsure of, which has only $\lbrace0,1\rbrace$ entries. I would like to generate all the possible matrices that result from changing (some subset) of the $1$'s ...
3
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3answers
163 views

Are table headings functional?

Are table headings for aesthetics only? If I have: ...
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1answer
120 views

Optimization of correlation calculation

How can I make the following line of code run faster? Is there a way to do this calculation as a matrix vs vector than vector vs vector? In the code below, f is a ...
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6answers
185 views

Sorting Matrix elements

I have matrix in as shown, consisting of real numbers and 0. How can I sort it to become out as shown? ...
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2answers
100 views

Matrix conditional operation

Say I have a matrix of: tmp1 = 5; tmp2 = 5; tmp3 = RandomChoice[{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, {tmp1, tmp2}]; MatrixForm[tmp3] How to do a conditional operation of elements ...
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2answers
136 views

How to get a sub range of a larger matrix?

This should be an easy question but I only found a partial solution using All. Say I have a matrix A = 1000 x 5, how to get only a part of that matrix, say B = n x ...
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5answers
120 views

Test First row of matrix

What is a good way to test the first row of a Matrix to check if one of the values equal a value. For instance, In this example, I want to get vector in the second row that has the bigger value in the ...
3
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2answers
267 views

Loop and do operations on Matrix, then graph the results

I'm trying to do some operations to a matrix in a loop, and then I want to graph the results. The results are pair of numbers. Can I store the results of each iteration on "something" and the use ...
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1answer
256 views

How to extract and replace submatrix of a doubly-periodic matrix?

How can I effectively extract and replace a rectangular subpart of a toroidal matrix, i.e. one where boundaries are connected at opposite ends? Since the submatrix can overhang the edges, a simple ...
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2answers
910 views

How to get Matlab data imported with the same dimensions?

I have some Matlab image data with the following dimensions (output is from Matlab): >> size(im) ans = 86 86 3 45 The data imports just fine ...
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2answers
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Symbolically associate vectors and their norms

I am wondering how to handle the following situation: I do have vectors of known dimension that I would like to handle symbolically. I suppose I can do something like ...
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4answers
267 views

Prepend 0 to sublists

My question is similar to this one, but my goal is to prepend a single 0 the each sublist, not incrementally many 0's. The file I'm working is a CSV containing around 50K sublists of length 35. I've ...
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5answers
903 views

Best way to create symmetric matrices

From time to time I need to generate symmetric matrices with relatively expensive cost of element evaluation. Most frequently these are Gram matrices where elements are $L_2$ dot products. Here are ...
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2answers
595 views

Tiling a square

I wondered if there was a way to automate the process of finding a way to tile a tile into a square. The idea is to represent the tile with a matrix of 0s for blank space and 1s for filled spaces ...
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2answers
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Add lists with unequal lengths together to create a matrix

I'm trying to create a stacked bar chart using raw data coming from a MySQL server. The result coming back from one query is: ...
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6answers
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How to visualize/edit a big matrix as a table?

Is it possible to visualize/edit a big matrix as a table ? I often end up exporting/copying big tables to Excel for seeing them, but I would prefer to stay in Mathematica and have a similar view as in ...
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6answers
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Elegant operations on matrix rows and columns

Question The Mathematica tutorial has a section 'Basic Matrix Operations', describing operations like transpose, inverse and determinant. These operations all work on entire matrices. I am missing a ...
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6answers
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Does Mathematica have advanced indexing?

I have two $M \times K$ arrays $L, T$ where I would like to set all the elements in $L$ to zero whenever the corresponding element of $T$ is greater than 15. The ...
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4answers
638 views

What is the right way to rotate an array?

Suppose I have an array, not necessarily square: a = $\left( \begin{array}{ccc} 1 & 2 & 3 \\ 4 & 5 & 6 \\ 7 & 8 & 9 \end{array} \right)$ I want to rotate it like one ...
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2answers
329 views

Why don't * and ^ work as I expected on matrices?

For example, this input... {{1, 2}, {3, 4}}*{{1, 2}, {3, 4}} produces this output... {{1, 4}, {9, 16}} and this input... ...
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992 views

What is the most efficient way to add rows and columns to a matrix?

Say I have a matrix m and a vector v. ...