MATLAB: Create a vector with binary values {0,1} with certain percentage of 0’s and 1’s

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Hi all,
It may be a pretty simple question for many, but I cannot figure out the answer.
I am developing a simualtion in which 1 denotes device ON and 0 denotes OFF. My simulation has x% ON devices (and of course (1-x) % OFF devices).
So, device 1 is denoted by element 1, dev. 2 by element 2 and so on…
In my simulation, I am working in vector mode (I avoid loops).
How can I generate vector of Zeros and Ones (0,1) in which x% elements are 1, rest are 0.
I need something like this (randomly generated in each simulation run)
[1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1]
1 => Dev ON
0 => Dev OFF

Best Answer

  • N = 10 ;   % total numner of elements 
    O = 6 ;    % Number of 1 needed 
    F = N-O ;  % Number of 0
    O = ones(1,O) ; 
    F = zeros(1,F) ;
    T = [O F] ; 
    idx = randperm(N) ;  % randomise the indices 
    T = T(idx)
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