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i have some data series in time domain which are in different length. i'm using FFT to transform them to frequency domain and now i want to calculate their average. Since their lengths are not equal i'm doing: (1) normalized the series before applying FFT (2) appending zeros in the end of sequences to complete the max series length

however, once i'm applying inverse FFT after averaging the series, i'm getting discontinuous results. the result up to the point of equal length is exactly the average, but from the point of the the difference it's completely out of bounds.

could you please advice what i'm doing wrong?

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  • $\begingroup$ Are the two sequences sampled at different sampling frequencies? $\endgroup$ – Olli Niemitalo Jun 18 '15 at 9:35
  • $\begingroup$ the two series sampled in time domain. they are not on the same length $\endgroup$ – ABI Jun 18 '15 at 10:54
  • $\begingroup$ What does it mean to average two sequences of different lengths? If you just want to zero pad to same length and then do $(x[n]+y[n])/2$ then why not just do that in the time domain? $\endgroup$ – Batman Jun 18 '15 at 11:28
  • $\begingroup$ @ABI yes but are the sampling frequencies the same for both sequences? $\endgroup$ – Olli Niemitalo Jun 18 '15 at 11:40

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