LOOK AT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. R(7) ans = 49.8875023348093 R(40) ans = 47.332112186806 R(7):R(40) ans = 1×0 empty double row vector What is the standard deviation of an empty vector? NaN. When you use colon with the first argument greater than the second, you get an empty vector. So you got exactly what is expected, based on what you did. Why you are doing what you are doing, that nobody else can know, only you. Should I point out that std(R(7):R(40)) does not in fact generate the standard deviation of the numbers in R in that range? For example, suppose I do this? R(1):R(5) ans = Columns 1 through 31 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Column 32 31 >> std(R(1):R(5)) ans = 9.38083151964686 But in fact, what I did was to generate the standard deviation of the linearly increasing sequence from 0 to 31. Is that really what you wanted to do? Answer from John D'Errico on mathworks.com
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nanstd - (Not recommended) Standard deviation, ignoring NaN values - MATLAB
nanstd is not recommended. Use the MATLAB® function std instead. With the std function, you can specify whether to include or omit NaN values for the calculation.
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Why does STD return NaN for financial time series with missing values (NaNs)? - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central
June 27, 2009 - As a workaround, you can extract the data to a matrix and compute the standard deviation using NANSTD in the Statistics Toolbox. Sign in to comment. Sign in to answer this question.
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Running standard deviation on matrix with NaN values - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central
December 16, 2013 - https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/109912-running-standard-deviation-on-matrix-with-nan-values#comment_185824 ... This uses the biased form of std rather than the unbiased form, which would divide SS by (N-1) instead of by (N)
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NaN computing std - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central
October 28, 2011 - Hi, I'm attempting to compute standarddev std of a vector, but this vector contains infinite inf values. Essentially, it outputs NaN, when I"m looking for an actual value. Is there any way to ...
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x(isnan(x)) = 0; % Protect against a all NaNs in one dimension i = find(count==0); if flag == 0 y = sqrt(sum(x.*x,dim)./max(count-1,1)); else y = sqrt(sum(x.*x,dim)./max(count,1)); end y(i) = i + NaN; % $Id: nanstd.m,v 1.1 2004/07/15 22:42:15 glaescher Exp glaescher $
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std - Standard deviation - MATLAB
Input data, specified as a vector, matrix, multidimensional array, table, or timetable. If A is a scalar, then std(A) returns 0. If A is a 0-by-0 empty array, then std(A) returns NaN.
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How to find standard deviation of all entries in a range and omit nan - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central
September 25, 2021 - https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1460609-how-to-find-standard-deviation-of-all-entries-in-a-range-and-omit-nan ... Suppose I have a matrix that contains NaN entries. I want to find the the standard deviation of all entries in the range (r1:r2,c1:c2) and omit NaN entries. Is there a way to do this without extracting data range first and storing it as a new entry? ... Unfortunately, this only gives me the std of this range based on whatever dim I specifiy.
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Moving Standard Deviation issues with NaN values (i.e., Stdfilt). Alternatives and workarounds? - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central
December 19, 2023 - The idea is: 1. Make an augmented image by adding a 1-pixel-wide strip of NaNs all around the original image. 2. Make a 3D array which is a 24-layer stack of copies of the augmented image. 3. Do a circular shift of each of the 24 layers, so that a drill-down through the stack will hit the 24 points of the 5x5 mask (minus the central point). 4. Compute the StDev of each 24-layer stack of pixels. Sign in to comment. ... https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2062217-moving-standard-deviation-issues-with-nan-values-i-e-stdfilt-alternatives-and-workarounds#answer_1374387
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I keep getting NaN values when computing the mean and standard deviation of an array - MATLAB Answers - MATLAB Central
January 6, 2021 - Hi, I am attempting to calculate the mean of all the rows in a cell array called 'XTrain2_all' comprised of 4x30 doubles, however I keep getting NaN values instead of 4 mean values. The same happens when computing the standard deviation. How do I stop this from happening? Thanks in advance. ... Sign in to comment. Sign in to answer this question. ... https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/710478-i-keep-getting-nan-values-when-computing-the-mean-and-standard-deviation-of-an-array#answer_592403
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% See also MEDIAN, STD, MIN, MAX, COV. · · · % Copyright 1984-2002 The MathWorks, Inc. · % $Revision: 5.17 $ $Date: 2002/06/05 17:06:39 $ · · if nargin < 2 · flag=0; · end · if nargin < 3 · dim=1; · end · x=permute(x, [dim 1:dim-1 dim+1:ndims(x)]); · · if size(x,dim)==1, · y = zeros(size(x)); · y(isnan(x))=NaN; ·
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