Count the frequency of matrix values including 0 - performance

Question

I have a vector
A = [ 1 1 1 2 2 3 6 8 9 9 ]
I would like to write a loop that counts the frequencies of values in my vector within a range I choose, this would include values that have 0 frequencies
For example, if I chose the range of 1:9 my results would be
3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 2
If I picked 1:11 the result would be
3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0
Is this possible? Also ideally I would have to do this for giant matrices and vectors, so the fasted way to calculate this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Here's an alternative suggestion to histcounts, which appears to be ~8x faster on Matlab 2015b:
A = [ 1 1 1 2 2 3 6 8 9 9 ];
maxRange = 11;
N = accumarray(A(:), 1, [maxRange,1])';
N =
3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0
Comparing the speed:
K>> tic; for i = 1:100000, N1 = accumarray(A(:), 1, [maxRange,1])'; end; toc;
Elapsed time is 0.537597 seconds.
K>> tic; for i = 1:100000, N2 = histcounts(A,1:maxRange+1); end; toc;
Elapsed time is 4.333394 seconds.
K>> isequal(N1, N2)
ans =
1

Answer 2

As per the loop request, here's a looped version, which should not be too slow since the latest engine overhaul:
A = [ 1 1 1 2 2 3 6 8 9 9 ];
maxRange = 11; %// your range
output = zeros(1,maxRange); %// initialise output
for ii = 1:maxRange
tmp = A==ii; %// temporary storage
output(ii) = sum(tmp(:)); %// find the number of occurences
end
which would result in
output =
3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0
Faster and not-looping would be #beaker's suggestion to use histcounts:
[N,edges] = histcounts(A,1:maxRange+1);
N =
3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0
where the +1 makes sure the last entry is included as well.

Answer 3

Assuming the input A to be a sorted array and the range starts from 1 and goes until some value greater than or equal to the largest element in A, here's an approach using diff and find -
%// Inputs
A = [2 4 4 4 8 9 11 11 11 12]; %// Modified for variety
maxN = 13;
idx = [0 find(diff(A)>0) numel(A)]+1;
out = zeros(1,maxN); %// OR for better performance : out(maxN) = 0;
out(A(idx(1:end-1))) = diff(idx);
Output -
out =
0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 1 0

Answer 4

This can be done very easily with bsxfun.
Let the data be
A = [ 1 1 1 2 2 3 6 8 9 9 ]; %// data
B = 1:9; %// possible values
Then
result = sum(bsxfun(#eq, A(:), B(:).'), 1);
gives
result =
3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 2