Origin Ver. and Service Release (Select Help-->About Origin): 8.5.1 Operating System: WinXP
Hi,
what is the easiest way to get the average value of a part of a column? Do I need to get into Labtalk for this? If yes, is there a good place to start? The sources that I found are not doing a very good job in documenting - or I might be spoiled by the Mathematica documentation. In excel it is a trivial problem: I just use Average(A1:A5) to get the average value of column A, rows 1 to 5. Is there something similar in Origin? Note: I know there is "statistics on columns", but I need to calculate something with the average. So I need to access that number. And the approach that uses this looks like a workaround. Ideally I'm looking for something that I can put into "set column values".
You can define a range, and apply "sum" function which produces a sum object which contains properties such as
sum.N, -.total, -.mean, -sd, -.min, and -.max
After running this function, you can keep the value by assigning to a variable(e.g., mymean=sum.mean), or store in a cell in a worksheet cell (e.g., col(B)[1]=sum.mean).
Origin 2015 version has introduced a handy tool - you can show the descriptive statistics of the selected range in the status bar, and copy-and-paste to anywhere like in another worksheet (by right-clicking the status bar):
Average of a part of a column
Posted - 08/23/2013 : 4:33:28 PM
