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- ** File: TPSht_03.hlp
- ** Index: 42
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- ** More Sheet View Help
- :: Filtering commands
- :: Smoothing commands
-
-
- █ Filtering
-
- This menu contains commands that
- perform digital filtering. These filters
- are infinite impulse response (IIR)
- filters.
-
- █ Low-Pass
-
- This command lets you perform low-pass
- digital filtering. It displays the
- Low-Pass Filter dialog box. In this
- dialog box, you specify the cut-off
- frequency F0. This filter only lets
- signal components with frequency less
- than F0 pass through.
-
- █ Hi-Pass
-
- This command lets you perform high-pass
- digital filtering. It displays the
- High-Pass Filter dialog box. In this
- dialog box, you specify the cut-off
- frequency F0. This filter only lets
- signal components with frequency greater
- than F0 pass through.
-
- █ Band-Pass
-
- This command lets you perform band-pass
- digital filtering. It displays the
- Band-Pass Filter dialog box. In this
- dialog box, you specify the lower cut-off
- frequency F0 and upper cut-off frequency
- F1. This filter only lets signal
- components with frequency between F0 and
- F1 pass through.
-
- █ Notch
-
- This command lets you perform Notch
- digital filtering. It displays the
- Notch Filter dialog box. In this dialog
- box, you specify the fiducial frequency
- F0 and the notch width e0. This filter
- removes only a narrow frequency band
- around the fiducial frequency F0 with
- bandwidth 2*e0.
-
-
- █ Smoothing
-
- This menu contains commands that
- perform digital data smoothing. For
- engineers and scientists, experimental
- data often contain a large amount of
- spurious noise. TechPlot implements
- several commonly used smoothing techniques
- for the purpose of removing noise from
- observed data. Each of the commands in
- this menu will display a dialog box. You
- will need to specify the column you want
- to smooth and window sizes (if any) in the
- dialog box.
-
- █ Lanczos
-
- This method is due to Lanczos; it is a
- fourth order smoothing of data points.
-
- █ Averaging
-
- This is the simplest type of filter; it
- is also called the linear filter.
- The following moving window methods
- (left and right) are special cases of
- this method. You specify both left and
- right window sizes in the dialog box.
-
- █ Moving Window (Left)
-
- This method uses the same formula as
- above. In this case, NR=0 and NL is the
- window size. You specify the left
- window size in the dialog box.
-
- █ Moving Window (Right)
-
- This method uses the same formula as
- above. In this case, NL=0 and NR is the
- window size. You specify the right
- window size in the dialog box.
-
- █ Savitzky-Golay
-
- This smoothing routine is adapted from
- Press et al [13]; it consists of fitting
- a least squares fourth degree polynomial
- through the data point and several points
- on either side. The data point is
- replaced by the value of the fitted
- polynomial evaluated at the abscissa of
- the data point. The left and right
- window size is specified by user in the
- dialog box.
-
- █ Gram 1-3
-
- This method uses Gram's first-degree
- three-point formulas, as described in
- Hildebrand's "Introduction to Numerical
- Analysis", Chapter 7, to smooth a series
- of equally spaced values.
-
- █ Gram 3-5
-
- This method is similar to Gram 1-3,
- except that Gram's third-degree
- five-point formulas are used.
-