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Re: finding periodicity in a set

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  • Subject: [mg39271] Re: [mg39250] finding periodicity in a set
  • From: Matt Flax <flatmax at ieee.org>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 03:07:33 -0500 (EST)
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It sounds to me like you have the right start.
The temporal methods they use to find pitch is speech processing will 
help to take you the rest of the way.

a] Find DFT X=DiscreteFourierTransform[xlist]
b] Auto Correlate the spectra XCORR=Correlate[Abs[X]]
c] Find maximum in XCORR and that is the period

To find the offset or phase .. that is a different story !

Hope that is a little teleporter forward.

Matt

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:07:01AM -0500, Scott A Centoni wrote:
> I have a list of coordinates where I want to find the period and offset 
> (modulo the period).  To illustrate, let's create the fake data set
> 
> xlist = 0.202+1.618(0.001 Random[ ] + Range[3, 17])
> 
> I want a function that will return
> 
> periodicity[xlist]
> 
> {1.618,0.202}
> 
> _pace_ an error in the third decimal place.  Note that the order of the 
> data in the list is irrelevant; it's to be considered a set, not a vector.
> 
> My first thought is to turn this into a sum of delta functions
> 
> xfunc = Plus@@(DiracDelta[x-#]&/@xlist)
> 
> and then Fourier transform this
> 
> kfunc = FourierTransform[xfunc,x,k]
> 
> and find the first nontrivial peak.  Does someone have a better way?  Or 
> if not, what's the "best" way of locating the peak?
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott

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