standard deviation of same values in a matrix

Hello,
I couldn't find anything which could help me with my problem.
I have a matrix (n x 2) like shown below:
I want to calculate the standard deviation of column 2 for all records which have the same valaue in column 1. So I get this:
Is there a smart way to do this? Maybe is several steps?
Thanks!

Answers (2)

The accumarray function is designed for this:
M = [5 0.30;
5 0.35;
7 0.50;
7 0.51;
9 0.98;
9 0.87;
9 0.71];
[uniqueM,idxToUnique,idxFromUniqueBackToAll] = unique(M(:,1));
S = accumarray(idxFromUniqueBackToAll,M(:,2),[],@std)
stdDevM = [uniqueM,S]

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Thank you! works quite well!
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John D'Errico
John D'Errico on 30 Nov 2015
Edited: John D'Errico on 30 Nov 2015
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