How to average first two dimension of 3D array/matrix?
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Hi all,
I am calculating the average of first two dimension of a 3D matrix but it is showing following error:
Error using sum
Dimension argument must be a positive integer scalar within indexing range.
Error in mean (line 116)
y = sum(x, dim, flag) ./ size(x,dim);
Also, I have used a simplest example given in topic 'Mean of Array Page' in https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/mean.html but I am getting same error.
I am using MATLAB 2018a
Please help!
Thanks in advance
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Wan Ji
on 1 Sep 2021
Edited: Wan Ji
on 1 Sep 2021
Just use mean function to average first two dimension of 3D matrix
a = rand(2,3,4); % I just use rand function so the result is randomly displayed
b = mean(a,1:2) % 1:2 means the first two dimension
The result is
b = mean(a,1:2)
b(:,:,1) =
0.5258
b(:,:,2) =
0.2759
b(:,:,3) =
0.6214
b(:,:,4) =
0.4449
If you want to get array of b
Then
b = squeeze(b) % or b = b(:);
So
b =
0.5258
0.2759
0.6214
0.4449
Steven Lord
on 1 Sep 2021
The ability to specify a vector of dimensions over which to sum an array was introduced in release R2018b as stated in the Release Notes.
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