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Re: How to average every nth data? [message #73383 is a reply to message #73378]

Thu, 04 November 2010 16:23

rogass
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On 4 Nov., 18:53, go cats <beardown...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Gurus,
>
> Hope someone will help me how to figure this out.
> I've been keep trying to do some spectral resampling (just simple
> average) with ASD data.
> ASD data is a two dimensional array;
>
> wavelength data
> 350 0.001146
> 351 0.001176
> 352 0.001147
> . .
> . .
> . .
> 2500 0.0004311
>
> What I've been trying to do is averaging every nth data values and
> rewrite into a new array.
> For example, if I want to average every 3rd data values, the resulting
> array will be
>
> 350 0.001150
> 353 0.001147
> and so on.
>
> MS excel seems to be able to handle it, but it wouldn't be a good idea
> for processing several hundres files.
>
> I really appreciate if someone could give me tip(s).
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
Hi Kim,
you could also use this:

range=3
new_w = total(reform(w,range,n_elements(w)/range),1)/range

or if you have missing values:

missing=0
new_w = total(((rr=reform(w,range,n_elements(w)/range),1)))/total(rr
ne missing,1)

Cheers

CR

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		Re: How to average every nth data? By: beardown911 on Fri, 05 November 2010 08:09
		Re: How to average every nth data? By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 05 November 2010 06:54
		Re: How to average every nth data? By: rogass on Thu, 04 November 2010 16:23
		Re: How to average every nth data? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 04 November 2010 13:55
		Re: How to average every nth data? By: beardown911 on Thu, 04 November 2010 13:31
		Re: How to average every nth data? By: beardown911 on Thu, 04 November 2010 13:13
		Re: How to average every nth data? By: beardown911 on Thu, 04 November 2010 13:12
		Re: How to average every nth data? By: Juggernaut on Thu, 04 November 2010 12:24
		Re: How to average every nth data? By: Chris W on Thu, 04 November 2010 11:14

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