Using two approaches, write the MATLAB code to compute the percentage of concuss

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Using two approaches, write the MATLAB code to compute the percentage of concussions overall (i.e., not classified by gender or sport) in the concuss.dat dataset. a. Approach 1: Use a loop to iterate over each data record, incrementing tallies as appropriate. b. Approach 2: Do NOT use a loop. Instead, index into your matrix to define the relevant vectors. Then use a logical mask to identify the subset of interest. For both approaches, use an fprintf statement to produce this output: Overall, 0.074 6% of the athletes sustained concussions. Notes: Be sure to load the data file into memory (once is sufficient). You may NOT use MATLAB's sum function in Approach 1. To produce the % sign in fprintf, use %%. Do NOT hard-code the 0.0746!! Comments are NOT required. As a reminder, here are the first few records (rows) contained in the concuss.dat file. The columns, in order, represent sport, gender, year, concussion and count.

Explanation / Answer

result = [];
fid=fopen('concuss.dat');

while i < 10
    tline = fgetl(fid);
    if ~ischar(tline), break, end
    cellData = textscan(tline,'%d %d %d %d %d');
    matData = cell2mat(cellData);
    result = [result ; matData];
end
fclose(fid);

% Approach one
total = length(result);
sumValue = 0;
for i=1:1:total
    if result(i, 4) == 0
        continue;
    else
        sumValue += 1;
    end  
end
percentage = (sumValue * 100.0) / total;
fprintf("Overall, %f of the athletes sustained concussions. ", percentage);

% Approach two
sumValue = length(findstr(result(:,[4])==1, 1))
percentage = length(result);
fprintf("Overall, %f of the athletes sustained concussions. ", percentage);

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