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Sohail Naeem
Sohail Naeem

Reputation: 75

Spreading a given value over a given length of an array

I have a number 27.50. I want to spread it in an array Result, size of which is 2000. The distribution of 27.50 in array Result shall start from 1 and end at 27.50.

number = 27.50;
Size = 2000;
Result = zeros(Size ,1);

I want it to distribute it in a such way that when I do cumsum of Result, final index shall have 27.50 and when I do sum of Result it shall be equal to 27.50.

Expected Result:

tmp = cumsum(Result)
tmp(end) == 27.50 

sum(Result) == 27.50

Question:

Is there any possible way to do it? If yes please advice what method shall I use*

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (1)

shamalaia
shamalaia

Reputation: 2351

I guess you can do it in many ways.

As @rahnema1 mentioned you can use a uniform distribution:

repmat(number/Size ,Size ,1)

Or you can use also a Gaussian:

normcdf(0:Size,1000,100) %choose the parameters yo want

Or any other distribution you want.

The key point is that you must normalize your distribution in a way that the sum under it is equal to the value you want: 27.50 in your case.

Upvotes: 2

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