Finding minimum within a set of rows below a certain point?

I have a matrix X which has a different participant's data (Z) for each row across 10 time points (t) as the columns, I need to find the minimum amount of time and maximum amount of time where Z reaches 2 across the participants.

Answer 1

[CAM]

I suggest using the find command (with Z>=2) with row & column as outputs. Find the min and max column values and their associated row (subject). Using these row-column pairs, you can get the times.

[Lucy Shaw]

I haven't come across this before do you ahve an example of the code I would need to use?

[Lucy Shaw]

Also would this help me get the maximum time for Z to reach 10, if I am using the maximum function would it not give me the times after it has already reached 10

Answer 2

[Duncan Carlsmith]

% Make fake data, rows of random monotonically increasing values.
X=cumsum(rand(10),2)

X = 10×10

0.2407 0.9921 1.6863 2.4363 3.1703 3.9778 4.4172 5.3464 6.1812 6.6070 0.2455 0.9450 1.1133 1.7098 2.1395 2.8970 3.6919 4.3028 5.0397 5.5213 0.7517 1.4867 1.5911 2.5082 3.0390 3.9270 4.2773 4.7528 5.3491 6.0419 0.1739 0.3215 0.4176 0.5598 0.8654 1.4947 1.6105 2.1808 3.1287 3.4387 0.6616 0.8986 1.0563 1.5918 1.6114 2.3840 2.7447 3.4972 3.6497 3.8587 0.5498 1.2241 2.1136 2.1682 2.8959 3.6941 3.8623 4.8417 5.0280 5.2876 0.5449 1.0082 1.7332 2.6481 3.0605 3.7799 4.4520 5.0920 5.0951 5.5473 0.3204 0.5379 1.3796 2.1376 3.1014 3.3773 3.8607 4.6522 5.4181 6.1001 0.0616 0.9671 1.0133 1.6343 2.2013 2.6511 2.8817 2.9395 3.4409 4.1134 0.8321 1.5095 2.1870 3.1504 3.9359 4.8557 5.1856 5.6795 5.6905 5.9523

% Make logical array for values satisfying the condition.
Y=X>2;
% Find the transition points
Z=diff(Y,1,2);
% Get the indices of the transition points.
[row,col]=find(Z==1);
%List the times of transitions.
[B,I]=sort(row);
Times=col(I)'

Times = 1×10

3 4 3 7 5 2 3 3 4 2