Mean neighbour values of a vector
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wenyi xiao
on 18 Nov 2020
Answered: Srivardhan Gadila
on 24 Nov 2020
Hi,
I got an original data(a vector, size is 1*N):
the format is like this: 𝑠1:𝑥1,𝑥2,𝑥3…𝑥𝑁
And I need 20 series,
The scale 2 series was obtained by averaging two successive values from the original series. Scale 3 was obtained by averaging every three original values and so on as shown in equation.
𝑠2:(𝑥1+𝑥2)/2,(𝑥3+𝑥4)/2,…,(𝑥𝑁−1+𝑥𝑁)/2
𝑠20:(𝑥1+⋯+𝑥20)/20,…,(𝑥𝑁−20+⋯+𝑥𝑁)/20
How can I achieve this in Matlab?
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Ameer Hamza
on 18 Nov 2020
Suppose you have an odd number of elements? How to calculate s2 in that case? For example, x have 5 elements.
s2 =: (x1+x2)/2, (x3+x4)/2, x5+????
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Srivardhan Gadila
on 24 Nov 2020
You can learn the essentials of MATLAB throught the MATLAB Onramp course. If you are already familiar then you can refer to the documentation of for, mean & Loops and Conditional Statements.
For the above cases listed 𝑠2:(𝑥1+𝑥2)/2,(𝑥3+𝑥4)/2,…,(𝑥𝑁−1+𝑥𝑁)/2 and 𝑠20:(𝑥1+⋯+𝑥20)/20,…,(𝑥𝑁−20+⋯+𝑥𝑁)/20, you can do something like below using arrayfun:
s1 = randn(40,1);
N = numel(s1);
m = 2;
s2 = arrayfun(@(i)mean(s1(m*(i-1)+1:m*i)),1:floor(N/m))
m = 20;
s20 = arrayfun(@(i)mean(s1(m*(i-1)+1:m*i)),1:floor(N/m))
Note that as Ameer Hamza rightly mentioned, you will have to figure out the code in the case where N is not exactly divisible by m.
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