MATLAB Basics video: Storing data in a matrix from a loop

I was recently answering a question that came in from a MATLAB user on this blog. In the end, the question was really one where he was doing a calculation and storing the result in scalar Y. When he was done with the loop, he only had the final value of Y but not all of them that he had calculated on the way. The solution to this was to store each value of Y into a vector. This video is meant for new users to show how to do that.

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2 Responses to “MATLAB Basics video: Storing data in a matrix from a loop”

kay replied on June 18th, 2008 at 12:41 pm :

Hi,
At the end of the video you mentioned that you can do this with matrices by creating a 3D matrix. What would the indices look for that for say a 4×4 matrix?
Y(4,4,i) ?

Doug replied on June 18th, 2008 at 12:54 pm :

Kay,

They would look like this:

>> a = rand(4,4,2)
a(:,:,1) =
0.1524 0.0782 0.0046 0.0844
0.8258 0.4427 0.7749 0.3998
0.5383 0.1067 0.8173 0.2599
0.9961 0.9619 0.8687 0.8001
a(:,:,2) =
0.4314 0.1455 0.5499 0.3510
0.9106 0.1361 0.1450 0.5132
0.1818 0.8693 0.8530 0.4018
0.2638 0.5797 0.6221 0.0760
>> a(1,2,2)
ans =
0.1455

Doug

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