I have a data set where each point is described by two unique numbers (call it a and b), and I need to count the number of times each combination of these two numbers occurs. For example if I had 6 points that were described by
mat = [1 1 ; 1 3 ; 2 3; 2 1; 1 2; 1 3]
where a is the first column and b is the second column, I want to know how many times a specific combo occurs. I know I can get the count of one number in a column doing something like this:
sum(mat(:,1)==1)sum(mat(:,2)==3)
which would return 4 and 3, respectively, but I want to count how many times the combo (1, 3) occurs, which would be 2 for this list.
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