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    LECTURE 5

    ADVANCED MATLAB COURSE- EXPERTS


    VISION
    FILE HANDLING IN MATLAB
     You can read and write multiple file types in
    Matlab:
     Excel sheets
     .txt files
     .dat files
     .csv files
     And many more
    Reading Excel sheets
    Requests
    numeric,
     Reading xls sheet…. text and Reads
    raw(all) data
    just the
    numeric
     [num,txt,raw] = xlsread('lec5.xlsx') data
     My_num_matrix=xlsread('sample_file.xls');
    Customize what
    you want to
     Or by ‘import’ option import and in
    which format

     Saving the procedure in a script or a function


    Writing Excel sheets
     Xlswrite(‘myfile.xls’, mymatrix)
    Reading .dat files
     load('myfile.dat')
    Writing .dat files
     dlmwrite('myfile.dat', my_matrix);
    Reading .txt file
     Open a file and associate a file identifier with it
     Read it.
     Close it.

     fileID = fopen('my_test_file.txt');
     C = textscan(fileID,'%s %s %f32 %d8 %u %f %f
    %s %f');
     fclose(fileID);
    Writing text files
     Open a file (if it doesn’t already exist, it will be created) and
    associate a file identifier with it.
     Write it.
     Close it.

     my_rand_nos = 100*rand(8,1);
     my_string='Sarah';
     file_ID = fopen('lecture 555 text.txt','w');
     fprintf(file_ID, '%s%f', my_rand_nos, my_string);
     fclose(file_ID);
    Format of data fields
    Format of data fields
    STRUCTURES

     Heterogeneous data of different types and sizes…


    how to store it?
     If you want to refer to them by name, use
    structures.
    Structures
     Suppose you want to store different attributes of
    student data, such as name, percentage, and roll
    number.
     These different attributes are called ‘fields’.
     ‘.’ dot notation to store values to them.
     Fields can be any kind of data -even another
    structure.
    Method 1
     student.percentage=91;
     student.roll=23;
     student.name='Kate';

     See workspace now


    Method 2
     You can also specify all the field names at once.
     ‘struct’ command.
     Introduce in pairs
     Field name and its corresponding value make a
    complete pair

     student=struct('name', 'Kate', 'percentage', 91, 'roll',


    23 )
    Structures
     A structure is one entity with a number of sub
    entities:

    Student

    Name
    Roll
    Percentage
    Concatenation of structures
     Just like combining matrices
     student1=struct('name', 'Kate', 'percentage', 91,
    'roll', 23 )
     student2=struct('name', 'Sam', 'percentage', 89,
    'roll', 33 )
     both_students=[student1 student2]
    Updating/ modifying values
     both_students(2).roll=90;
    To access a particular field of array elements

     both_students.name
     both_students.roll
     both_students.percentage
    Exercise
     2 patients
     Names
     Ages
    Cells
     If you have heterogeneous data of different sizes
    and types, but you would like to access it all as an
    array then use ‘cell’ arrays.
     It can have multiple rows and columns just like a
    normal matrix- only difference is that the elements
    of that matrix can be of many different types and
    sizes!
     Use curly brackets to construct a cell array.
    Method 1
     Specify elements one by one…

     mycell{1}='Hogwards';
     mycell{2}=[1 2 3];
     mycell{3}=false;
    Method 2
     Specify all elements at once.

     mycell={'Hogwarts', [1 2 3], false }

     Xls sheets are imported as cell arrays for most


    applications.
     To store lists of text data.
    Visualization of a cell structure
     Suppose this is a cell structure of size 2x3
     Just like a matrix- but heterogeneous elements are
    the present.
    ‘Hogwarts’ [1 2 3] false

    [1 2 3 4
    2356 81 ‘books’
    5 3 6 2]
    Code 1
     c{1, 1}='hogwarts';
     c{1, 2}=[1 2];
     c{1, 3}=false;
     c{2, 1}=[1 2 3 4
     2356
     5 3 6 2];
     c{2, 2}=81;
     c{2, 3}='books';
    Code 2

     mycell={'Hogwarts', [1 2], false; [1 2 3 4; 2 3 5 6;


    5 3 6 2], 81, 'buks'};
    How to access data
     The 1st element of mycell
    How to access data

     Mycell{row, column}to access the data

     Mycell(row, column)to access the particular cell


    Which should you use? Cells or structures?

     Ask yourself would you prefer to refer to your variable


    elements by number(s) or by name. Then use cell array in
    former case and struct array in later. 
     Structure arrays contain data in fields that you access by
    name.
     E.g student records are usually stored in a structure array.
     Cell arrays contain data in cells that you access by
    numeric indexing
     E.g storing lists of text strings and storing heterogeneous
    data from spreadsheets.
    Concatenating of strings
    Strcat (‘My name is ’ ‘Kevin’)

    Strcat(‘myfile’, num2str(4), ‘.txt’)


    Three dimensional data
     3D Matrices
    3D cells
    Data Fitting
     If I tell you that
     x =[ 0 1.3963 2.7925 4.1888 5.5851 6.9813
    8.3776 9.7738 11.1701 12.5664]
     Y=[0 0.9848 0.3420 -0.8660 -0.6428 0.6428
    0.8660 -0.3420 -0.9848 -0.0000]

     And ask you to give me an n degree equation that


    best describes my data………?
     Fit_y=A1 + A2 * x + A3 * x^2 +……+ An * x^(n-1)
    Polyfit function
     coefficients = polyfit(x,y,n);

     Where n is the degree of the equation.


     For a 4th degree equation:
     p = polyfit(x,y,4);

     Fitted_Y=A + B*x + C*x^2 + D*x^3


     Where A, B, C and D are the 4 coefficients.
    Polyval function

     fittedY =A + B*x + C*x^2 + D*x^3


     This equation can be calculated automatically by
    this command:
     fittedY = polyval(coefficients, x);
    Matlab Code
     x =[ 0 1.3963 2.7925 4.1888 5.5851 6.9813
    8.3776 9.7738 11.1701 12.5664];
     y=[0 0.9848 0.3420 -0.8660 -0.6428 0.6428
    0.8660 -0.3420 -0.9848 -0.0000];

     coefficients = polyfit(x,y,7);
     plot(x, y, 'g');
     hold on;
     fittedY = polyval(coefficients, x);
     plot(x, fittedY, 'r')
    If n= 5 coefficients
    1.5
    original y
    fitted y
    1

    0.5

    -0.5

    -1

    -1.5
    0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
    If n=7 coefficients
    1
    original y
    0.8 fitted y

    0.6

    0.4

    0.2

    -0.2

    -0.4

    -0.6

    -0.8

    -1
    0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

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