matlabweighted-average

compute time series weighted average

I have a 8760x1 vector with the 1-hour average ambient temperature time series.

I want to calculate the weighted average temperature weighted by the percentage of operating hours at each temperature level.

What i thought is divide the temperature range with:

ceil(Tmax-Tmin)

and then use hist.

Are there any other suggestions? Thank you in advance.

Solution

  • mean(temperatures) should do it.

    Since you have hourly measurements, the frequency of a given value will be reflecting the operating hours at that temperature level. A value that occurs frequently will therefore automatically have more weight in the average.