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Re: Finding all max/min of a graph [message #21701 is a reply to message #21697]

Mon, 11 September 2000 17:25

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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wmc@bas.ac.uk wrote:
>
> This may or may not be a FAQ but my rather feeble search failed to
> find it...
>
> I have a graph with about 10 (local) max/mins, I'd like to find them
> all, objectively. What do I do?
>

We had a lengthy debate concerning just this topic a few months ago. The topic
was expanded to include n point extrema, but for the simple case of a point
either less than or greater than both of it's nearest neighbors, you could try:

wh=where(d ne median(d,3))

JD

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		Re: Finding all max/min of a graph By: wmc on Tue, 12 September 2000 05:21
		Re: Finding all max/min of a graph By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 11 September 2000 17:25
		Re: Finding all max/min of a graph By: meron on Mon, 11 September 2000 11:31

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