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Simpson's Paradox - Calculate correlation coefficients for groups of data
Simpson's Paradox is a statistical phenomenon where groups of data can have a characteristic while the whole data set together h...

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Find the minimum of the column-maximums of a matrix
Given a matrix A, find the maximum value of each column, then return the smallest of those maximum values (ie return the minimum...

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Calculate the mean of each half of a matrix
Given a matrix with an even number of columns, n, return a 1-by-2 row vector where the first element is the mean of all the elem...

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Find Closest Constant
Given a number x, return the value that is closest to x from this list of constants: 0, 1, , e, , (also known as ). For exampl...

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Matrix Quadrants
Write a function that takes N as the input, and outputs a matrix whose upper-left (NxN) quadrant contains all ones, the lower-ri...

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Longest run of consecutive numbers
Given a vector a, find the number(s) that is/are repeated consecutively most often. For example, if you have a = [1 2 2 2 1 ...

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Rescale Scores
Each column (except last) of matrix X contains students' scores in a course assignment or a test. The last column has a weighted...

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Calculate Inner Product
Given two input matrices, x and y, check if their inner dimensions match. If they match, create an output variable z which cont...

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Find MPG of Lightest Cars
The file cars.mat contains a table named cars with variables Model, MPG, Horsepower, Weight, and Acceleration for several classi...

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Find the Best Hotels
Given three input variables: hotels - a list of hotel names ratings - their ratings in a city cutoff - the rating at which yo...

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Crop an Image
A grayscale image is represented as a matrix in MATLAB. Each matrix element represents a pixel in the image. An element value re...

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Calculate BMI
Given a matrix hw (height and weight) with two columns, calculate BMI using these formulas: 1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds 1 inch = 2...

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Plot Damped Sinusoid
Given two vectors |t| and |y|, make a plot containing a blue ( |b| ) dashed ( |--| ) line of |y| versus |t|. Mark the minimum...

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Calculate a Damped Sinusoid
The equation of a damped sinusoid can be written as y = A.ⅇ^(-λt)*cos(2πft) where A, λ, and f are scalars and t is a vector. ...

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Solve a System of Linear Equations
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Verify Law of Large Numbers
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Convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius
Given an input vector F containing temperature values in Fahrenheit, return an output vector C that contains the values in Celsi...

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Calculate Amount of Cake Frosting
Given two input variables r and h, which stand for the radius and height of a cake, calculate the surface area of the cake you n...

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Times 2 - START HERE
Try out this test problem first. Given the variable x as your input, multiply it by two and put the result in y. Examples:...

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Find the Oldest Person in a Room
Given two input vectors: * |name| - user last names * |age| - corresponding age of the person Return the name of the ol...

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Natural numbers in string form
Create a cell array of strings containing the first n natural numbers. Slightly harder than it seems like it should be. Exampl...

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Fix the last element of a cell array
Note: this is lifted directly from <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/82825-puzzler-for-a-monday Puzzler for a Mond...

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String Array Basics, Part 1: Convert Cell Array to String Array; No Missing Values
<http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/characters-and-strings.html String array> and cell array are two types of containers for s...

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Cell Counting: How Many Draws?
You are given a cell array containing information about a number of soccer games. Each cell contains one of the following: * ...

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Remove element(s) from cell array
You can easily remove an element (or a column in any dimension) from a normal matrix, but assigning that value (or range) empty....

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Convert a Cell Array into an Array
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Split a string into chunks of specified length
Given a string and a vector of integers, break the string into chunks whose lengths are given by the elements of the vector. Ex...

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Convert a numerical matrix into a cell array of strings
Given a numerical matrix, output a *cell array of string*. For example: if input = 1:3 output is {'1','2','3'} whic...

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Create a cell array out of a struct
Create a cell array out of a (single) struct with the fieldname in the first column and the value in the second column: in: ...

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Cell joiner
You are given a cell array of strings and a string delimiter. You need to produce one string which is composed of each string fr...

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