[Numpy-discussion] Definition of correlation, correlate and so on ?
David Cournapeau
david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tue Dec 12 08:17:43 EST 2006
Charles R Harris wrote:
>
>
> On 12/12/06, *David Cournapeau* <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
> <mailto:david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am polishing some code to compute autocorrelation using fft, and
> when testing the code against numpy.correlate, I realised that I
> am not
> sure about the definition... There are various function related to
> correlation as far as numpy/scipoy is concerned:
>
> numpy.correlate
> numpy.corrcoef
> scipy.signal.correlate
>
> For me, the correlation between two sequences X and Y at lag t is
> the sum(X[i] * Y*[i+lag]) where Y* is the complex conjugate of Y.
> numpy.correlate does not use the conjugate, scipy.signal.correlate as
> well, and I don't understand numpy.corrcoef. I've never seen complex
> correlation used without the conjugate, so I was curious why this
>
>
> Neither have I, it is one of those oddities that may have been
> inherited from Numeric. I wouldn't mind seeing it changed but it is
> probably a bit late for that.
Well, I would myself call this a bug, not a feature, unless at least the
doc specifies the behaviour; the point of my question was to get the
opinion of other on this point. Anyway, a function to implements the
'real' cross correlation as defined in signal processing and statistics
is a must have IMHO,
David
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