Converting Matlab scripts to Wolfram Language

Questions
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1

I’m looking to recreate some of Dr. Wang’s work in Mathematica.

Is there a tool or easy way to convert Matlab scripts to Mathematica? Scripts found here: Princeton Election Consortium

2

Simple: no there isn’t! You would have to ‘translate’ this yourself. Generally you can use a similar coding style as Matlab (using lots of for loops et cetera, which mathematica also supports), but there might be easier ways.

If i look at the code quickly, it looks fairly straight-forward to translate them!

3

For example the 4th file is easily converted to this:

ClearAll[StateName]
StateName[in_] := Module[{data},
  data = <|1 -> "AL", 2 -> "AK", 3 -> "AZ", 4 -> "AR", 5 -> "CA", 
    6 -> "CO", 7 -> "CT", 8 -> "DC", 9 -> "DE", 10 -> "FL", 
    11 -> "GA", 12 -> "HI", 13 -> "ID", 14 -> "IL", 15 -> "IN", 
    16 -> "IA", 17 -> "KS", 18 -> "KY", 19 -> "LA", 20 -> "ME", 
    21 -> "MD", 22 -> "MA", 23 -> "MI", 24 -> "MN", 25 -> "MS", 
    26 -> "MO", 27 -> "MT", 28 -> "NE", 29 -> "NV", 30 -> "NH", 
    31 -> "NJ", 32 -> "NM", 33 -> "NY", 34 -> "NC", 35 -> "ND", 
    36 -> "OH", 37 -> "OK", 38 -> "OR", 39 -> "PA", 40 -> "RI", 
    41 -> "SC", 42 -> "SD", 43 -> "TN", 44 -> "TX", 45 -> "UT", 
    46 -> "VT", 47 -> "VA", 48 -> "WA", 49 -> "WV", 50 -> "WI", 
    51 -> "WY"|>;
  If[KeyExistsQ[data, in], data[in], "XX"]
  ]
4

No. It’s not easy.

To port this code, you have to understand what the code is doing in Matlab and then rewrite it in Mathematica. That said, I don’t think it’s too difficult for someone experienced with statistics in Mathematica or Matlab.

There are probably ways of executing code the code from Mathematica. But I don’t think you want that.

5

I recommend using this code:

With[{abbrevs = EntityClass["AdministrativeDivision", "AllUSStatesPlusDC"][ "StateAbbreviation"]},
 AssociationThread[Range[Length@abbrevs] -> abbrevs]
 ]

In case a state gets added to the union. It’s bad form to have hard values coded in like this.

6

That’s even better, I didn’t know it was in there! thanks for pointing out!

7

If you look at the code, remove all the comments, and many of the ‘safety features’ it can be done within the hour… fairly basic code. Also you can use built-in function like Quantile with makes everything a lot easier…