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ITm
ITm

Reputation: 3

How to obtain the maximum between element-pairs of two 2D matrices?

I have to calculate maximum of every unique pair of elements in matrix. So here is my code:


resultsMat = [
6   4   4;
0   2   6;
7   7   1;
5   1   73
];

copyMat = resultsMat;
for i=1:size(resultsMat,1)
        for j=1:size(resultsMat,2)
             for q=1:size(resultsMat,1)
                 for p=1:size(resultsMat,2)
                        if i== q && j ~= p
                        a = max(resultsMat(i,j),copyMat(q,p))
                        end
                 end
             end
        end
end

The problem comes when I try to store values in a matrix. For example:

[val ind] =  max(resultsMat(i,j),copyMat(q,p))

This throws an error:

Error using max
MAX with two matrices to compare and two output arguments is not supported.

Error in Untitled2 (line 18)
                        [a, b] = max(resultsMat(i,j),copyMat(q,p))

How to store values from a = max(resultsMat(i,j),copyMat(q,p)) in a matrix?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 106

Answers (1)

Adriaan
Adriaan

Reputation: 18177

You need a larger (probably multi-dimensional) matrix, as every (i,j) location has a maximum vs any (q,p) location. This means that for every element in your first matrix, you obtain a full matrix of the same size. Saving as

matrix_with_results(i,j,q,p) = a

would do this. Then, given any combination of i,j,q,p, it returns the maximum.

Be sure to preallocate

matrix_with_results = zeros(size(resultsMat,1),size(resultsMat,2),size(resultsMat,1),size(resultsMat,2))

for speed.

Two notes:

  • Don't use i or j as indices/variables names, as they denote the imaginary unit. Using those can easily lead to hard to debug errors.

  • Initialise matrix_with_results, i.e. tell MATLAB how large it will be before going into the loop. Otherwise, MATLAB will have to increase its size every iteration,which is very slow. This is called preallocation.

Upvotes: 1

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