rdtools.normalization.delta_index

rdtools.normalization.delta_index(series)

Deprecated since version 2.0.0: The _delta_index function was deprecated in rdtools 2.0.0 and will be removed in 3.0.0.

Takes a pandas series with a DatetimeIndex as input and returns (time step sizes, average time step size) in hours

Parameters:

series (pandas.Series) -- A pandas timeseries

Returns:

  • deltas (pandas.Series) -- A timeseries representing the timestep sizes of series

  • mean (float) -- The average timestep