Random order with constraints
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How can i generate random orders of 2 types of stimuli (1:n=200 and 2:n=20) with a constraint : there can't be 2 stimuli of type 2 in a row ?
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Stephan
2020-1-27
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2020-1-27
Cindies "answer" moved here:
What i want is a random list like:
stim1
stim1
stim2
stim1
stim1
stilm1
stim1
stim2......
With 200 stim 1 and 20 stim 2 (but never 2 stim 2 in a row in the list)
OR random positions for the 20 stim2
so like :
5, 17, 77, 99, 201, 174...
so 20 random numbers between 1 and 220 but i want to make sure there are never numbers that follow each other (ex: 77 and 78) and that the number doesn't appear twice
Is that clear ?
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the cyclist
2020-1-27
If you have the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox, you could do it like this:
x = sort(randsample(220,20,false));
while min(diff(x)) <= 1
x = sort(randsample(220,20,false));
end
This is a little ugly and fairly inefficient. The algorithm generates the 20 numbers, then checks them for the constraint, and repeats the process as necessary.
I did a bit of testing, and only about 15% of the random sequences will obey the constraint, so the while loop will typically run several times. But maybe that is OK.
I'm guessing there is a more clever way that is more efficient, but it did not come to me immediately.
You can do the same thing with base MATLAB like this:
x = randperm(220);
x = sort(x(1:20));
while min(diff(x)) <= 1
x = randperm(220);
x = sort(x(1:20));
end
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