Signal Metrics
The mean of a signal stored in a matlab row- or column-vector
x can be computed in matlab as
mu = sum(x)/Nor by using the built-in function mean(). If x is a 2D matrix containing N elements, then we need mu = sum(sum(x))/N or mu = mean(mean(x)), since sum computes a sum along ``dimension 1'' (which is along columns for matrices), and mean is implemented in terms of sum. For 3D matrices, mu = mean(mean(mean(x))), etc. For a higher dimensional matrices x, ``flattening'' it into a long column-vector x(:) is the more concise form:
N = prod(size(x)) mu = sum(x(:))/Nor
mu = x(:).' * ones(N,1)/NThe above constructs work whether x is a row-vector, column-vector, or matrix, because x(:) returns a concatenation of all columns of x into one long column-vector. Note the use of .' to obtain non-conjugating vector transposition in the second form. N = prod(size(x)) is the number of elements of x. If x is a row- or column-vector, then length(x) gives the number of elements. For matrices, length() returns the greater of the number of rows or columns.I.1
Signal Energy and Power
In a similar way, we can compute the signal energy
(sum of squared moduli) using any of the following constructs:
Ex = x(:)' * x(:) Ex = sum(conj(x(:)) .* x(:)) Ex = sum(abs(x(:)).^2)The average power (energy per sample) is similarly Px = Ex/N. The



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