I have ages in month.day format like this:
35,24
36,11
36,19
37,18
35,12
37,04
35,20
36,01
35,26
36,05
36,16
37,28
for example for the first entry, the age is 35 months and 24 days.
How can I average them all to get a proper age average in the same format?
Thanks
If it can be reasonably assumed that a month is equal to 30 days then the following will return an average in the form of mm,dd.
=INT((SUMPRODUCT(LEFT(A2:A13, FIND(",", A2:A13)-1)*30+MID(A2:A13, FIND(",", A2:A13)+1, 99))/ROWS(A2:A13))/30)&
","&
INT(MOD((SUMPRODUCT(LEFT(A2:A13, FIND(",", A2:A13)-1)*30+MID(A2:A13, FIND(",", A2:A13)+1, 99))/ROWS(A2:A13)),30))
Here is a rough approximation:
My formula in B14:
=ROUNDDOWN((SUM(B2:B13)*30.5+SUM(C2:C13))/(ROW(B14)-2)/30.5, 0)
- Sum of the months times 30.5 (rough avg days in month)
- Add the sum of the days
- Divide by the entries (made this flexible for flexible amount of entries)
- Divide out by days to get months average and rounddown
My formula in C14:
=ROUNDDOWN((SUM(B2:B13)*30.5+SUM(C2:C13))/(ROW(B14)-2)-(B14*30.5), 0)
- Sum of months and days again to get total days
- Divide by entries to get average days
- Subtract out days already accounted for in months (B14)
- Rounddown
Upon doing the question on STDDEV I found I just need to change to average to get the answer for this:
=QUOTIENT(AVERAGE(LEFT(A1:A12,2)*30 + RIGHT(A1:A12,2)),30)&","&ROUND(MOD(AVERAGE(LEFT(A1:A12,2)*30 + RIGHT(A1:A12,2)),30),2)
It is an array formula so it needs to be confirmed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter. You can change the rounding on the days to what every you want by changing the last number in the formula.