how to calculate the average?

Hi,

I have a matrix that has a dimension of 200*59. I want to calculate the average of the first 6 rows for each column to get 1*59

I've written this loop

for i=1:59

Tavg(i)=nanmean(squeeze(temp(1:6,i)));

end

I am not sure if the loop is correct or not!

any help is appreciated

Answer 1

[Kevin Holly]

Lilya,

You do not need to create a for loop (see vectorization)

I would also suggest using the mean function instead.

temp = rand(200,59);%random matrix for demonstration purposes
Tavg = mean(temp(1:6,:)) %The first input is a vector of the rows 1 through 6 and the second input is a colon (:), which includes all elements (in this case all columns).

Tavg = 1×59

0.3738 0.6747 0.5105 0.5482 0.4596 0.3234 0.5693 0.2417 0.6018 0.6705 0.4275 0.6520 0.5644 0.3968 0.6870 0.4599 0.5968 0.5243 0.3118 0.4044 0.4199 0.4204 0.2583 0.6455 0.5059 0.5478 0.5277 0.6005 0.5665 0.3599

if you have NaN values that you want to ignore:

Tavg = mean(temp(1:6,:),'omitnan')

Tavg = 1×59

0.3738 0.6747 0.5105 0.5482 0.4596 0.3234 0.5693 0.2417 0.6018 0.6705 0.4275 0.6520 0.5644 0.3968 0.6870 0.4599 0.5968 0.5243 0.3118 0.4044 0.4199 0.4204 0.2583 0.6455 0.5059 0.5478 0.5277 0.6005 0.5665 0.3599

[Lilya]

Thank you very much!! that was helpful