how to make the X,Y for fitcsvm,as i get error using it?

 SVMModel = fitcsvm(X,Y,'KernelFunction','rbf','Standarize',true,'ClassNames',{'negClass','posClass'});
Undefined function 'fitcsvm' for input arguments of type 'cell'.

In the description of fitcsvm ,Y can be a categorical or character array, logical or numeric vector, or cell array of strings is mentioned how can I build it to be ready to fit in fitcsvm. my x is 6*12 and y=[1;1;1;-1;-1;-1]; for which I get error.It also has mentioned that Y — Array of class labels with each row corresponding to the value of the corresponding row in X. Y can be a character array, categorical, logical or numeric vector, or vector cell array of strings. Column vector with each row corresponding to the value of the corresponding row in X. How can I build Y be a "character array, categorical, logical or numeric vector, or vector cell array of strings"

Answer 1

[Shashank Prasanna]

What version of MATLAB are you using? fitcsvm was introduced in MATLAB R2014a. If you are using an earlier version of MATLAB you may have to use svmtrain:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/stats/support-vector-machines.html

You can check the version of MATLAB by typing:

>>ver

[Sheema Khattak]

Yes I have r2013a.What can I do to get it working I cant afford installation of r2014a now. I get the same error for svmtrain as mentioned in the query

[Shashank Prasanna]

Can you check if you have the Statistics Toolbox installed? You can check that by the ver command. SVM is part of the Statistics Toolbox.

[Sheema Khattak]

Yes it is installed Statistics toolbox 8.3 and 2014a has statistics toolbox 9.0.

[Shashank Prasanna]

shah, this is confusing, you just mentioned that you don't have R2014a if your previous post.

In any case, if you have the toolbox you should be able to access svmtrain function. If you can't then you may have a path issue, try the following:

>> restoredefaultpath

>> rehash tolboxcache

If you still have trouble, I recommend contacting technical support. I also recommend trying some example code from the documentation directly to make sure it is not working after the above steps.