So would this work out to look like the following, correct?
1) attach rank vector to X an Y
2) sort X descending
3) sort Y ascending
4) Loop over the elements while Yi is greater than Xi and save the
larger values including its rank to a result matrix
5) sort the result matrix according to the ranks of its elements
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:55:54 +0100, Alexandru Voicu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not really. If the ordering is important, you can attach a rank vector
> to result matrix result = rank~X, sort it according to the elements of
> x, then do the whole thing for the second column of the result matrix,
> then resort it with respect to its first column.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seb Buechte
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 2:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: programming help
>
> I am wondering: do you need to preserve the order of elements in your
> vector(s)? In that case sorting etc. will not help and the whole problem
> remains more complex...
>
> seb
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:58:17 -0500, MITRA PINAKI (MAR1PXM)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am struggling with the following problem and wondering if I can
> > get any help on this. I have two row vectors, X=(x11, x21, x31, ...,
> > xn1)' and Y=(y11, y21, y31, ..., yn1)' where n=300 (I have 300
> > elements in each of the row vectors). My problem is the following: 1)
> > I need to calculate the largest value of Y and the smallest value of
> > X. 2) If the largest value of Y is grater than the smallest value of
> > X, replace the smallest value of X by the largest value of Y. 3) At
> > the next step, ignore the previous largest value of Y and find the
> > largest from the rest of the 299 elements of Y. Also for X, find the
> > smallest value of X from the rest of the 299 elements of X and if the
> > largest value of Y is grater than the smallest value of X, replace the
>
> > smallest value of X by the largest value of Y. 4) The loop stops when
> > the largest value of Y from the rest of Y elements is less than equal
> > to the smallest value of X from the rest of X elements. 5) Construct
> > the new X vector (X_NEW) with the new elements of Y after replacement
> > keeping the unchanged elements of X.
> >
> > My problem is that I am not able to construct the loop correctly and
> > getting no where. Thank you for your help.
> >
> > Pinaki
> >
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