How to determine which range a number is in and then report a value from a table

I'm looking for help and advice on a difficult problem, at least difficult for a Matlab novice like me.

I have a single column of temperature values in one variable, and a table of other values. This table consists of temperatures of -30 to 50 increasing in steps of 10 as the first row. In the first column I have name strings that identify different sensors. The remaining table is composed of numbers that are sensitivities.

I want to read the temperature, determine where the temperature is between two values in the table in row 1, then along with the sensor ID, obtain a value for the sensitivity which will feed into subsequent calculations.

For example.

S_temp = [{4.5 -4.2 7 9.6 -9.5}]'  % some random values of temperature
labels = [{'Temp' 's1' 's2' 's3' 's4'}]';
table = [{-10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 8 10};{1 2 3 7 4 6 8 9 3 1 6};{0.1 0.2 0.8 1 5 10 9 8 4 7 7};{1 2 1.8 2 10 4 8 8 2 4 6};{0.1 0.2 6.8 12 11 14 8 6 2 4 6}];
table = [labels,table]; % to construct my query table

Going down the list of temperatures, the first value is 4.5. In the table its between 4 and 6. Lets also say I want to look along Row s2. Taking the upper value of the identified range (i.e. 6) my target value within the table is 4. The second temperature is -4.2, target value in the table (for s2) is 0.8...and so on down the list of temperatures.

Any advice and help on this would be gratefully received.

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Take a look at the DISCRETIZE function. You may also want to store your data in a TABLE as then you can use the row indices from DISCRETIZE with the variable (column) names to retrieve data from the table.

[Wah On Ho]

Thank you. I've just taken a quick look at the function and it looks promising. I didn't think about the problem in terms of creating bins with the ranges as the bin intervals.