Numerical first derivative of irregularly spaced data
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Given a vector x and a vector y, the numerical first derivative should be gradient(y)./gradient(x) for all points specified by x, right? Is that the case even if the vector x is irregularly spaced? (If not, how do you do so?) Also, which finite differences method does this use? Thanks.
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Matt J
2023-12-11
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2023-12-11
It seems to work:
t=sort( rand(1,1000)*2*pi );
cos_t=gradient(sin(t))./gradient(t);
I=1:20:1000;
plot(t,cos(t),'b--' , t(I), cos_t(I) ,'o'); legend('True','Finite Difference',Location='southeast')
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Star Strider
2023-12-11
The single gradient call using both vectors is new, and does not appear to be documented as a change.
In earlier versions (perhaps as recently as five years ago), gradient used the first element of the second argument vector (or perhaps the difference between the first and second elements), giving anomalous results. That required dividing the gradient of the dependent variable vector by the gradient of the independent variable vector to get an acceptable result. I just now compared them (using a vector that was not close to being regularly-spaced), and it appears to consider the entire vector, since:
gradient(x,t)
and:
gradient(x) ./ gradient(t)
now give the same result.
I wonder when the change occurred? It would be nice it that were added to the documentation.
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