[SciPy-user] moving average, moving standard deviation, etc...

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:33:28AM +0200, Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 10:53:04PM -0400, A. M. Archibald wrote:
> > On 24/12/06, Matt Knox <mattknox_ca at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Ok, thanks. So it sounds like there is no easy way to do this generally without
> > > doing some looping in python (for the standard deviation anyway), or writing
> > > some C code. I'm more interested in the general strategy for doing these kinds
> > > of calculations than these specific examples themselves necessarily. Although
> > > they are useful for making pretty charts sometimes.
> > 
> > Fancy indexing will do the job, more or less.
> > 
> > This is the general idea I was trying to get at:
> > 
> > chunk = 10
> > data = arange(10000)/10000.
> > 
> > indices = arange(len(data)-chunk+1)[:,newaxis]+arange(chunk)[newaxis,:]
> > 
> > data_chunks = data[indices]
> > 
> > average(data_chunks,axis=0)
> > var(data_chunks,axis=0)
> > and so on...
> > 
> > The only problem is that it expands your data rather a lot. Personally
> > I wouldn't worry about that until my application was written. I
> > posted, some time ago, a function that would allow the easy
> > construction of data_chunks as a view of the original array, that is,
> > with no data copying. (Sorry, I don't remember how to find the
> > thread.)
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.scientific.user/9570/focus=9579

Or even better:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/12365/focus=12367

Cheers
Stéfan