[SciPy-User] How to calculate Yulewalk with scipy.optimize.leastsq

[Neal Becker]

klo uo wrote:

> http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/signal/ref/yulewalk.html
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> http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.3.3/en_US/yulewalk.html
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:56 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have no idea about whether or how it can be used for filter design?
>>
>> For estimation of the filter from data, the Yule Walker equations can only
>> estimate a autoregressive process, not an IIR filter (ARMA process).
>>
>>

Many years ago I played around with using YuleWalker as a digital filter design 
technique.  There, I added white noise to the model (adding to the diagonal 
terms of the correlation matrix), and by varying the amount of noise, you could 
vary the filter characteristics.