All numbers between 0 and 1 are either below 0.45 or above 0.41 or  
both.  Do you want "&" instead?

On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Hernán De Angelis wrote:

> I realized that my previous mail was only sent to Cliff!
>
>> Thanks all for your answers. I had finally some time today to work on
>> this but I can unfortunately not make Cliff's solution to work.
>>
>> Will keep trying,
>
> Well, I believe I got the problem. If i tell pdl:
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> $a = random (100);
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> and then:
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> p nelem which($a < 0.45 | $a > 0.41)
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> I get 100!, which is not supposed to be the elements of $a that lie
> between 0.45 and 0.41.
>
> On the other hand,
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> p nelem which($a < 0.45 )
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> gives 51 ...
>
> So I realized that at least in my installation of PDL, "which" and
> "where" do not work with the double argument "  ( >  |  <  )  ". The
> simple one does though. Will try reinstalling. Is anyone else having
> this problem?
>
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> Hernán
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>> 2009/6/30 Cliff Sobchuk <[email protected]>:
>>> If you are looking for the histogram of R as a function of Z,  
>>> could you not first sort the data on Z so that you now have two  
>>> vectors that are sorted in ascending (or descending) order of Z  
>>> (as Craig/Chris indicated).
>>>
>>> Then create an index of the unique zvalues
>>>
>>> $zi=$z->uniq;
>>>
>>> Now create the histograms for each zindex
>>>
>>> for (1..nelem($zi)) {($xv[$_-1],$rh[$_-1])=hist($r->where($z==$zi- 
>>> >index($_-1)))}
>>>
>>> I did a sample of sorted data (25 z coords of 1,2,3,4) and a  
>>> random vector r (100 points) and it gives what I expected.
>>>
>>> You could use the value of $zi->index($_-1) to be the array index  
>>> for the xValues and rHistogram counts to identify them directly as  
>>> part of the array. Just have to remember that all of the other  
>>> array values =0.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Cliff Sobchuk esn 361-8169, 403-262-4010 ext: 361-8169
>>> Fax: 403-262-4010 ext: 361-8170
>>> Nortel Core RF Field Support: All information is Nortel  
>>> confidential.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Craig DeForest [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: June 30, 2009 9:18 AM
>>> To: Hernán De Angelis
>>> Cc: perldl
>>> Subject: Re: [Perldl] Compute a distribution function from  
>>> irregular data
>>>
>>> If you don't care about your bin size, and the values are sorted  
>>> by z value, a straightforward way is:
>>>
>>> $n = 57; # or whatever
>>>
>>> $bounds = $z->(0:-1:$n);
>>> $box_z = ($bounds->(1:-1) + $bounds->(0:-2))/2; $box_freq = $n/ 
>>> ($bounds->(1:-1) - $bounds->(0:-2));
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 30, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Hernán De Angelis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, I will think about that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hernán
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/6/30 Chris Marshall <[email protected]>:
>>>>> If you sort the (z,r) data by z you can use the histogram counts  
>>>>> to
>>>>> calculate ranges of index values corresponding to each bin.   
>>>>> range()
>>>>> or other indexing operation can select the sets to calculate your
>>>>> desired stats.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Chris
>>>>>
>>>>> Hernán De Angelis wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear PDL'ers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am stuck with an apparently simple problem and hoped that  
>>>>>> someone
>>>>>> in this list might have a clue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have approx. 130000 pairs of data, z and r,  which represent
>>>>>> observations of some function r  at some coordinate z.
>>>>>> A sample of the data looks like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> z      r
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  3311  311.817
>>>>>>  3346  249.333
>>>>>>  3238  353.368
>>>>>>  3279  367.020
>>>>>>  3347  324.405
>>>>>>  3448  274.632
>>>>>>  3161  310.469
>>>>>>  3204  358.739
>>>>>> ...... ......
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These observations come from a three dimensional space, and
>>>>>> therefore there exists more than one r value for each value of  
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> coordinate z.
>>>>>> What I want to do is to estimate a gross distribution of r values
>>>>>> versus z. Simple as it seems I am having troubles to set up a PDL
>>>>>> code to compute it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Hernán De Angelis
>>>> Linux user # 397217
>>>>
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