Reducing repeated elements in an array by a factor
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Is there a way to reduce the number of repeated elements in an array by a factor? For example, say the factor I had was 3, i would want to reduce
[1 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 6]
to
[1 2 2 5 6]
i.e. only leave one third of the repeated elements.
Not sure if this is possible but worth a shot, thanks! :)
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Matt J
on 12 Feb 2020
Another method, one which avoids for-loops inherent in cell2mat,
V=[1,2,2,2,0,2,2,2,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,6,6];
N=3;
X = cumsum([1,diff(V)~=0]);
[~,idx]=unique([X,inf],'stable');
result=V( repelem(idx(1:end-1), ceil(diff(idx)/N) ) )
result =
1 2 0 2 5 5 6
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