[SciPy-Dev] Including Lomb-Scargle code in scipy.signal (sub)module

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Travis Oliphant <oliphant at enthought.com>wrote:

> This looks like a very nice addition to the signal toolbox in SciPy.
>  And, yes, it should definitely go in the signal toolbox.
>
> I suggest creating a namespace periodogram (or spectrum or spectral) in the
> signal toolbox:
>
> signal.periodogram.welch
> signal.periodogram.lombscargle
> signal.periodogram.ribicky
>
> etc.
>

It seems there is reasonable agreement, with most suggestions for
"spectral". So I plan to change the name to that and commit it in the next
few days.

>
> I'm not a big fan of very long names with a lot of redundancy (i.e. what is
> the categorical difference between spectral and periodogram?)
>
> Spectral seems to be a slightly broader term, i.e. the least squares
spectral analysis Wikipedia page includes a number of techniques only some
of which qualify as periodograms.

Cheers,
Ralf
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