Double integral with variable limit with integrand as an numerical array
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I have integrands as numerical vectors denoting probability density functions as shown in the following equation.

and
are numerical vectors of equal size.I want to double integrate them with a variable limit (
) on lower integral. In my knowledge, symbolic integrals (e.g. integral2) available in MATLAB don't take numerical vectors. On the other hand I don't know how to use trapz (used for integration of numerical vectors) when the limit is variable. I am showing one of the codes where I failed.
) on lower integral. In my knowledge, symbolic integrals (e.g. integral2) available in MATLAB don't take numerical vectors. On the other hand I don't know how to use trapz (used for integration of numerical vectors) when the limit is variable. I am showing one of the codes where I failed. f1 = 1:100;
f2 = 1:100;
% Element wise multiplication of f1 and f2 to make them a single vector
F = f1.*f2;
I_in = @(t2) trapz(t2:100,F); % inner integral
I = trapz(60:100, I_in(t2));
It gives the following error:
Error using trapz
Dimension argument must be a positive integer scalar within indexing range.
Any help in this regards would be greatly appreciated.
2 Comments
Torsten
on 24 Nov 2022
According to your notation, f1 and f2 have to be matrices, not vectors because f1 = f1(t1,t2) and f2 = f2(t1,t2).
Akshay Tiwari
on 24 Nov 2022
Answers (1)
Walter Roberson
on 24 Nov 2022
0 votes
Use integral2(). The first set of bounds must be numeric, but the second set of bounds can be function handles.
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