Normalize a collection of arrays on a specific column
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- Subject: [mg85897] Normalize a collection of arrays on a specific column
- From: Curtis Osterhoudt <cfo at lanl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:24:07 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: LANL
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Hi, all,
I'm looking for a relatively efficient (read: not doing so
element-by-element) way of taking a collection of several matrices, all of
the same m x n dimensions (say), and normalizing all of them in
whatever column I choose. If possible, it would be nice to extend this
to any number of dimensions, but that's not necessary now.
For example, I'm looking for a function, "normalizeColumn[listOfLists_,
p_]" which would normalize the pth column of all of the lists, not
individually, but over the whole set, returning the whole set with just
the pth column changed in each of its constituent lists.
Let dat1 = {{1,3,4}, {2,2,-5}, {1,1,1}} and dat2 = {{0, 3, 6},
{2,1,4}, {5, 3, -5}}. Then if dat3 = {dat1, dat2}, the normalizeColumn
function should return
normalizeColumn[dat3, 2] = {{{1, 1, 4}, {2, 1/2, -5}, {1, 0, 1}},
{{0, 1, 6}, {2, 0, 4}, {5, 1, -5}}}.
I'm quite certain there's an easy way to do it; I should be able to do
something analogous on several hundred, 200 x 200 matrices at the same
time.
Best wishes, and thanks,
Curtis O.
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