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    Need help performing a time normalization

    Hello,

    I need some help performing a time normalization on some data sets. I'm doing a kinematic analysis on the rowing stroke, comparing the drive phase of two different rowing ergometers. I need to average the hip and knee angles of ten different strokes. So right now I have ten columns of hip and knee angles from the rowing stroke, the thing is each stroke is a slightly different duration so I cannot just average them together to come up with an ensemble average. I need to normalize them so they all contain the same number of rows. For example; one column has 109 rows, the next has 103, the next 99, the next 105, etc. I want to make it so the data is on a scale of 1-100% so I can average them all together. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!

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    Re: Need help performing a time normalization

    Logic wise, perhaps you could try working it out via weighted calculations?

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    Re: Need help performing a time normalization

    I'll try that. I'm not by any means a math person and I'm waiting to hear back from my professor. I just wanted to see if I could get a jump on things before his response. Thanks for taking the time to respond!

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    Re: Need help performing a time normalization

    You're on the right track.

    You need to do an interpolation to the average stroke duration, or from 0 to 100% of stroke. Then you can average corresponding cells.
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    Re: Need help performing a time normalization

    Try uploading the workbook.. Maybe this can help in the meantime
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    Re: Need help performing a time normalization

    Quote Originally Posted by shg View Post
    You need to do an interpolation to the average stroke duration, or from 0 to 100% of stroke. Then you can average corresponding cells.
    Ooh, better way:

    Do a Fourier regression on each series. That gives a set of sin/cos (or sin/phase) coefficients for as many terms as you need (probably <= 6).

    Those coefficients can then be averaged by harmonic and used to reconstruct an 'average' stroke.

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