calculate angle between 2 n-dimentional vectors with missing data
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I have a matrix with the rows containing the n dimensions of 2 vectors. I want to calculate the angle of difference for each row. The issue I have is that some of the cells are missing and so I don't want either of the vectors values for that dimension in the row to go into the calculation.
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So your matrix A is n x 2 and your the missing elements are NaNs? If so,
idx = all(~isnan(A),2); %EDITED
B=A(idx,:);
norms = prod(sqrt(sum(B.^2)));
dotprod= sum(prod(B,2));
result = acosd( dotprod/norms), %angleDiff
2 Comments
Roger Stafford
on 31 Dec 2014
Matt, I think you mean
idx = all(~isnan(A),2);
Matt J
on 31 Dec 2014
Right you are, Roger. I've edited accordingly.
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