MATLAB: How to down sample a vector

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I have a vector which contain 60 elements. I want to down sample it to have 54 elements.how can I do this?

Best Answer

There are several ways, depending on what your vector is.
This approach is likely the simplest, and used interp1:
V = randi(99, 1, 60); % Vector
idx = 1:60; % Index
idxq = linspace(min(idx), max(idx), 54); % Interpolation Vector
Vi = interp1(idx, V, idxq, 'linear'); % Downsampled Vector
figure(1)
plot(idx, V, '-r')
hold on
plot(idxq, Vi, 'bp')
hold off
grid
legend('Original Vector', 'Downsampled Vector')