I would like to sum specific columns of each row in a matrix using a for loop. Below I have included a simplified version of my problem. As of right now, I am calculating the column sums individually, but this is not effective as my actual problem has multiple matrices (data sets).
a = [1 2 3 4 5 6; 4 5 6 7 8 9];
b = [2 2 3 4 4 6; 3 3 3 4 5 5];
% Repeat the 3 lines of code below for row 2 of matrix a
% Repeat the entire process for matrix b
c = sum(a(1,1:3)); % Sum columns 1:3 of row 1
d = sum(a(1,4:6)); % Sum columns 4:6 of row 1
e = sum(a(1,:)); % Sum all columns of row 1
I would like to know how to create a for loop that automatically loops through and sums the specific columns of each row for each matrix that I have.
Thank you.
Here is a solution that you don't need to use for loop.
Assuming that you have a matrix a of size 2x12, and you want to do the row sums every 4 columns, then you can use reshape() and squeeze() to get the final result:
k = 4;
a = [1:12
13:24];
% a =
% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
% 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
s = squeeze(sum(reshape(a,size(a,1),k,[]),2));
and you will get
s =
10 26 42
58 74 90