grouped average in arrays

I have two arrays:

A=[1,2,3,1,3,4,2,5,6,7,3,4]
B=[a,a,a,b,b,b,c,c,d,d,d,b]

where person 'a' has scores 1,2,3; person 'b' has scores 1,3,4,4. I want to get an average of the scores per person. So the output aray will be: avgScores = [2,3,3.5,5]. avgScores is in the same order as uB.

My idea is to get uB = unique(B) and then find idx of each element in uB from B, then use these idx to get the scores from A and compute the average.

uB = unique(B)
for i=1:size(uB,1)
    idx=strfind(B,uB(i)) %returns a full array with ones in place of match
    scores = A(idx) %does not work
    avgScores(i) = average(scores)
end

The problem is that I can not get the idx from B, it returns an array the size of B, with empty arrays in no matches, and 1s in matches. So the next step does not work.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

Requires 2018a or later:

T=table;
T.Group=B.';
T.Values=A.';
G=findgroups(T.Group);
groupsummary(T,'Group','mean')

Note: The last value should be 5.3333 not 5.

Answer 2

[madhan ravi]

Requires 2015b or later:

T=table;
T.Group=B.';
T.Values=A.';
G=findgroups(T.Group);
avgscores=splitapply(@mean,T.Values,G)

Answer 3

[Andrei Bobrov]

Old MATLAB

T = table(A(:),repelem(string(['a':'d','b']'),[3,3,2,3,1]),'v',{'A','B'});
outT = varfun(@mean,T,'G',2);