Programmer Guide/Command Reference/EVAL/smooth

Apply a smoothing to the vector x.

Usage

smooth(x {, type=0 {, m=1 {, s=1}}})

x

data vector

m

smoothing length; 0 < m <= nrow(x)/2 (default=1)

type

selects the smoothing algorithm (default=0)

soutput step size; 0 < s <= nrow(x)/2 (default=1)

Description

The smoothing function is selected by the argument type. The smoothed value xs[i] is computed from the data values x[i-m] to x[i+m]. The general form of the smoothing function is: ∑ j = i − m i + m x j . w j {\displaystyle \sum _{j}=i-m_{i}+m{x_{j}.w_{j}}} $\sum _{j}=i-m_{i}+m{x_{j}.w_{j}}$

type	smoothing algorithm	xs[i] =
0	average	(x[i-m]+x[i-m+1]+..+x[i]+..+x[i+m-1]+ x[i+m]) / (2*m+1)
0	average with reciprocal weights	(x[i-m]/(m+1)x[i-m+1]/m+..+x[i]+..+x[i+m-1]/m+ x[i+m]/(m+1)) / (1 + 2*m+1)

Result

A vector r with nrow(x)/s elements. The value r[j] is set to the value xs[j*s] of the smoothed data vector.