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Re: getting derivatives from spline [message #66063 is a reply to message #66043] Sat, 11 April 2009 09:11 Go to previous message
lbusett@yahoo.it is currently offline  lbusett@yahoo.it
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On 11 Apr, 08:56, Jeremy Bailin <astroco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know a way of getting SPLINE or any of its friends to
> return the derivatives of the interpolating function at the desired
> abscissae in addition to the interpolated values?
>
> Or, another way of getting at this question: what is everyone's
> favourite algorithm for numerically calculating the derivatives of
> (slightly) noisy data?
>
> -Jeremy.

Hi Jeremy,

I would consider Savitzky and Golay smoothing. The IDL "SAVGOL"
routine allows to compute the derivatives of the de-noised data.

Hope this helps,

Lorenso
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