dsearch - dichotomic (binary) search

Calling Sequence

[ind, occ, info] = dsearch(X, val [, ch ])

Parameters

• X : a real (row or column) vector (1,m) or (m,1)
• val : a real (row or column) vector with n components in strictly increasing order val(1) < val(2) < ... < val(n)
• ch : (optionnal) a character "c" or "d" (default value "c")
• ind : a real vector with the same dimensions than X
• occ : a real vector with the same format than val (but with n-1 components in the case ch="c")
• info : integer

Description

case ch="c"

this is the interval case, for each X(i) search in which of the n-1 intervals it falls, the intervals being defined by :

            I1 = [val(1), val(2)]
            Ik = (val(k), val(k+1)] for 1 < k <= n-1 ;
         

• ind(i) is the interval number of X(i) (0 if X(i) is not in [val(1),val(n)])
• occ(k) is the number of components of X which are in Ik
• info is the number of components of X which are not in [val(1),val(n)]

case ch="d"

this is the discrete case, for each X(i) search if it is equal to one val(k)

• ind(i) is equal to the index of the component of val which matches X(i) (ind(i) = k if X(i)=val(k)) or 0 if X(i) is not in val.
• occ(k) is the number of components of X equal to val(k)
• info is the number of components of X which are not in val

Examples

// example #1 (elementary stat for U(0,1))
m = 50000 ; n = 10;
X = grand(m,1,"def");
val = linspace(0,1,n+1)';
[ind, occ] = dsearch(X, val);
xbasc() ; plot2d2(val, [occ/m;0])  // no normalisation : y must be near 1/n


// example #2 (elementary stat for B(N,p))
N = 8 ; p = 0.5; m = 50000;
X = grand(m,1,"bin",N,p); val = (0:N)';
[ind, occ] = dsearch(X, val, "d");
Pexp = occ/m; Pexa = binomial(p,N); 
xbasc() ; hm = 1.1*max(max(Pexa),max(Pexp));
plot2d3([val val+0.1], [Pexa' Pexp],[1 2],"111",  ...
        "Pexact@Pexp", [-1 0 N+1 hm],[0 N+2 0 6])
xtitle(  "binomial law B("+string(N)+","+string(p)+") :" ...
        +" exact probability versus experimental ones")


// example #3 (piecewise Hermite polynomial)
x = [0 ; 0.2 ; 0.35 ; 0.5 ; 0.65 ; 0.8 ;  1];
y = [0 ; 0.1 ;-0.1  ; 0   ; 0.4  ;-0.1 ;  0];
d = [1 ; 0   ; 0    ; 1   ; 0    ; 0   ; -1];
X = linspace(0, 1, 200)';
ind = dsearch(X, x);
// define Hermite base functions
deff("y=Ll(t,k,x)","y=(t-x(k+1))./(x(k)-x(k+1))")   // Lagrange left on Ik
deff("y=Lr(t,k,x)","y=(t-x(k))./(x(k+1)-x(k))")     // Lagrange right on Ik
deff("y=Hl(t,k,x)","y=(1-2*(t-x(k))./(x(k)-x(k+1))).*Ll(t,k,x).^2")
deff("y=Hr(t,k,x)","y=(1-2*(t-x(k+1))./(x(k+1)-x(k))).*Lr(t,k,x).^2")
deff("y=Kl(t,k,x)","y=(t-x(k)).*Ll(t,k,x).^2")
deff("y=Kr(t,k,x)","y=(t-x(k+1)).*Lr(t,k,x).^2")
// plot the curve
Y = y(ind).*Hl(X,ind) + y(ind+1).*Hr(X,ind) + d(ind).*Kl(X,ind) + d(ind+1).*Kr(X,ind);
xbasc(); plot2d(X,Y,2) ; plot2d(x,y,-9,"000") 
xtitle("an Hermite piecewise polynomial")
// NOTE : you can verify by adding these ones : 
// YY = interp(X,x,y,d); plot2d(X,YY,3,"000")
   

See Also

find  

Author

B.P.