How can I count the number of elements of a given

Question

Does anyone know how to count the number of times a value appears in a matrix?

For example, if I have a 1500 x 1 matrix M (vector) which stores the values of weekdays (1 - 7), how could I count how many Sundays (1), Mondays(2), ... , Saturdays(7) are stored in M?

Answer 1

One way you can perform this operation for all the values 1 through 7 at once is to use the function ACCUMARRAY:

>> M = randi(7,1500,1);  %# Some random sample data with the values 1 through 7
>> dayCounts = accumarray(M,1)  %# Will return a 7-by-1 vector

dayCounts =

   218       %# Number of Sundays
   200       %# Number of Mondays
   213       %# Number of Tuesdays
   220       %# Number of Wednesdays
   234       %# Number of Thursdays
   219       %# Number of Fridays
   196       %# Number of Saturdays