Create time matrix with serial date number and sample rate

Hello everyone,

I recorded ECG measurements on animals and want to analyse them on Matlab.

The software I'm using (LabChart) enables me to load the data as different vectors in matrix form. Everything is explained here : https://www.adinstruments.com/support/knowledge-base/how-does-matlab-open-exported-data.

My problem is:

I want to create a new matrix of the time but I have no idea how.

I know I can create a time array with the serial date number Labchart uploaded with this code:

t1 = datetime (blocktimes, 'ConvertFrom', 'datenum', 'Format', 'HH:mm:ss');

But this number is only for the first data point and I would like to have the time for my whole data set.

As I have the tick rate, sample rate and total number of data points I guess it's possible.

Any idea?

Thanks,

Marine

Answer 1

[dpb]

Well, what is "tick rate"?

If you have a sample rate and number of points, then the sample times are just

t=[0:1/Fs:(N-1)/FS];

where Fs is sample rate (Hz) and N is number of samples.

In MATLAB, the above will be a an array of doubles, you can cast to a duration with seconds() and add to the initial time to get actual sampling times. But, for signal analysis, absolute time is rarely of real interest.

[Marpe]

This helped me a lot thank you! I am really new to Matlab and I'm learning almost by myself so simple things like this is not obvious for me :)