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How can I mix up "blocks" of elements of 2 vectors and put them in a new vector?

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How can I mix up "blocks" of elements of 2 vectors and put them in a new vector?
for example:
if I have vectors A and B:
A = [ 2; 3; 4; 5; 4; 6; 2; 1]
B = [33; 34; 55; 34; 54; 55; 56; 43]
I want to divide vector A into blocks with different sizes, where the maximum number of elements in the block is 4 and the minimum is 1:
A1 = [2 ; 3 ; 4 ;5]
A2 = [4]
A3 = [6 ; 2]
A4 = [1]
And the same for vector B, where the maximum number of elements in the block is 4 and the minimum is 1:
B1 = [33]
B2 = [34 ; 55 ; 34]
B3 = [54 ; 55 ; 56 ; 43]
Then I want to define a new vector that contains these blocks:
Say:
C = [A1 ; B1 ; B2 ; A2 ; A3 ; B3 ; A4]
I can do the above steps for small number of elements (like the above example), but what if the number of elements in each vector is 1000? How can I divide the blocks randomly and define a new variable (C) that contains these blocks?
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dpb
dpb on 21 May 2016
Sampling with or without replacement within each subset?
Hint: Don't need to build the other arrays, simply define the number of groups and size of each group and concatenate the selection of each.
Precise code depends up the answer to the above question plus how the number and size of the groups is to be ascertained.

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 21 May 2016
A=randi(10,1,30) % -----Example-------
n=numel(A)
id=randi(4,1,n);
ii=cumsum(id);
jj=find(ii<=n);
ss=jj(end);
e=n-ii(ss)
part=id(jj)
part(end)=part(end)+e
out=mat2cell(A',part,1)

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