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- ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: cut (X, BREAKS)
- ##
- ## Create categorical data out of numerical or continuous data by
- ## cutting into intervals.
- ##
- ## If BREAKS is a scalar, the data is cut into that many equal-width
- ## intervals. If BREAKS is a vector of break points, the category has
- ## length(BREAKS)-1 groups.
- ##
- ## Returns a vector of the same size as X telling which group each point
- ## in X belongs to. Groups are labelled from 1 to the number of groups;
- ## points outside the range of BREAKS are labelled by NaN.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Cut data into intervals
-
- function group = cut (X, BREAKS)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("cut (X, BREAKS)");
- endif
-
- if !is_vector (X)
- error ("cut: X must be a vector");
- endif
- if is_scalar (BREAKS)
- BREAKS = linspace (min (X), max (X), BREAKS + 1);
- BREAKS(1) = BREAKS(1) - 1;
- elseif is_vector (BREAKS)
- BREAKS = sort (BREAKS);
- else
- error ("cut: BREAKS must be a scalar or vector");
- endif
-
- group = NaN * ones (size (X));
- m = length (BREAKS);
- if any (k = find ((X >= min (BREAKS)) & (X <= max (BREAKS))))
- n = length (k);
- group(k) = sum ((ones (m, 1) * reshape (X(k), 1, n))
- > (reshape (BREAKS, m, 1) * ones (1, n)));
- endif
-
- endfunction
-