From: Charles on
Well Tideman,

thanks for the compliment about the politician part :-), however, I earned the reputation out of my ignorance and not out of wish. If I could have framed the question the way u did, I would have done that to earn the reputation of the 'scientist' :-) which I am.

Anyway, I am grateful to all u guys to took out the time to help, Steve, US, etc. All u guys are doing a great job.

Charles


TideMan <mulgor(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <6ee2f64e-305d-418d-8b22-f31472c3256c(a)e34g2000pra.googlegroups.com>...
> On May 28, 7:39 am, "Charles " <nkwos...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > the problem  earlier was that the I have many of such data (150), so I thought that I took only one column, I will lose information in the process.
> >
> > Here is how I tackled the problem.
> > I got the global minimum and maximum of the data. Used
> > x= linspace(min,max,total_points) to generate the x axis.
> > and then used the 'interp1' function to evaluate each of the data pairs, and take the 'y-axis' as my single column that I sought.
> >
> > To visualise my data, I just plot (x,y) and it works ok. As I am interested in knowing new things, how does
> > f = @(A) A(:, 1)
> > really work? Couldn't figure it out. Anyway, thanks a lot for your assistance.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> > "Steven Lord" <sl...(a)mathworks.com> wrote in message <htm8ai$g2...(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> >
> > > "Charles " <nkwos...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > >news:htlram$fb8$1(a)fred.mathworks.com...
> > > > Hi,
> >
> > > > thanks for your information. Unfortunately, I cannot take one column and
> > > > ignore the other.
> > > > Here is a sample of my data
> >
> > > >      0.066842      0.17721
> > > >      0.57632      0.30842
> > > >       1.0858      0.44874
> > > >       1.5953      0.58121
> > > >       2.1047      0.69558
> > > >       2.6142      0.78242
> > > >       3.1237      0.84037
> > > >       3.6332      0.88074
> > > >       4.1426      0.91695
> > > >       4.6521      0.95016
> > > >       5.1616      0.97679
> > > >       5.6711        0.991
> > > >       6.1805        0.997
> > > >         6.69            1
> >
> > > > Any kind of transformation that will reduce the data to one column will be
> > > > fine. Thanks.
> >
> > > You contradict yourself.  You say here that any kind of transformation will
> > > be fine as long as it reduces the data to one column.  Well, here's one:
> >
> > > f = @(A) A(:, 1)
> >
> > > But you said in your second sentence that this transformation is not
> > > acceptable.  Well, why not?
> >
> > > You need to give more details about what, SPECIFICALLY, you're trying to do
> > > before we can figure out how to help you.
> >
> > > --
> > > Steve Lord
> > > sl...(a)mathworks.com
> > > comp.soft-sys.matlab (CSSM) FAQ:http://matlabwiki.mathworks.com/MATLAB_FAQ
> > > To contact Technical Support use the Contact Us link on
> > >http://www.mathworks.com
>
> Charles:
> You should get a job as a politician.
> You have an innate ability to obfuscate.
> You could have saved a lot of time by just asking:
> I have a set of points x,y. The x are monotically increasing, but not
> equally spaced. How can I generate a set of y at equispaced intervals
> of x?
>
> Then us and Steven would have responded:
> help interp1
> and that would have been that.