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derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab [message #86461]

Tue, 12 November 2013 02:08

Jie Zhou
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Is there a derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab? I think the DERIV is different from DIFF.

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Re: derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab [message #86462 is a reply to message #86461]

Tue, 12 November 2013 02:27

lecacheux.alain
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Le mardi 12 novembre 2013 11:08:11 UTC+1, Jie Zhou a écrit :
> Is there a derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab? I think the DERIV is different from DIFF.

The DERIV function in IDL uses a second order formula for the discrete differenciation (known as 3-point Lagrange interpolation). Afaik, Matlab DIFF computes a simple difference given, in IDL, by x - shift(x,1), where x is your data series.
alx.

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Re: derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab [message #86464 is a reply to message #86461]

Tue, 12 November 2013 04:01

Matthew Argall
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On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:08:11 AM UTC-5, Jie Zhou wrote:
> Is there a derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab? I think the DERIV is different from DIFF.

TS_DIFF(data, 1) would be equivalent.

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Re: derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab [message #86465 is a reply to message #86464]

Tue, 12 November 2013 04:07

lecacheux.alain
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Le mardi 12 novembre 2013 13:01:15 UTC+1, Matthew Argall a écrit :
> On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:08:11 AM UTC-5, Jie Zhou wrote:
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>> Is there a derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab? I think the DERIV is different from DIFF.
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> TS_DIFF(data, 1) would be equivalent.

TS_DIFF(data, 1) is simply doing a shift by one (i.e. data - shift(data, 1)), but by using a for loop!
alx.

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Re: derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab [message #86466 is a reply to message #86464]

Tue, 12 November 2013 04:08

Matthew Argall
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On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 7:01:15 AM UTC-5, Matthew Argall wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:08:11 AM UTC-5, Jie Zhou wrote:
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>> Is there a derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab? I think the DERIV is different from DIFF.
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> TS_DIFF(data, 1) would be equivalent.

Actually, maybe not. TS_DIFF calculates the forward difference. I think you are looking for the backward difference.

In that case, I tend to use

result = data[1:*] - data[0:n_elements(data)-1]

or

result = shift(data, 1) - data
result = result[0:n_elements(result)-1]

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Re: derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab [message #86467 is a reply to message #86466]

Tue, 12 November 2013 04:18

Jie Zhou
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On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:08:10 PM UTC+1, Matthew Argall wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 7:01:15 AM UTC-5, Matthew Argall wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:08:11 AM UTC-5, Jie Zhou wrote:
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>>> Is there a derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab? I think the DERIV is different from DIFF.
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>> TS_DIFF(data, 1) would be equivalent.
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> Actually, maybe not. TS_DIFF calculates the forward difference. I think you are looking for the backward difference.
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> In that case, I tend to use
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> result = data[1:*] - data[0:n_elements(data)-1]
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> result = shift(data, 1) - data
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> result = result[0:n_elements(result)-1]

In fact what I tried to do is using diff function to calculate the n-th derivative of an 2-d matrix. for example, for a matrx:
A=
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

in matlab, the DIFF(A,2) gives:
1 -2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 -2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 -2 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 -2 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 -2 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 1

Until now, I don't find a equivalent function in IDL.
Thanks to alx, I use
D=(shift(shift(A,0,1)-A,0,1)-(shift(A,0,1)-A))[*,2:*]
to finish the task.

jie

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Re: derivative function in IDL similar as DIFF in matlab [message #86468 is a reply to message #86467]

Tue, 12 November 2013 06:07

Matthew Argall
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> D=(shift(shift(A,0,1)-A,0,1)-(shift(A,0,1)-A))[*,2:*]

print, (Shift_Diff(Shift_Diff(A, DIRECTION=1, /EDGE_WRAP), DIRECTION=1, /EDGE_WRAP))[*,2:*]

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