[SciPy-User] calculate xcorr/acorr without plotting?

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:57 PM, David Ho <itsdho at ucla.edu> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Is there a way to calculate a cross-correlation (xcorr) or autocorrelation
> (acorr) without actually plotting a figure?
>
> For example, for histograms, I can use matplotlib.pyplot.hist() to plot a
> histogram, but I can also use numpy.histogram() if I just want to compute
> the values without plotting a figure.
> I'd like to do something similar for cross-correlations.

not directly, but it's just a few lines, that can be copied from the
source of matplotlib or statsmodels or several other packages

eg.
acov = numpy.correlate(x,x)/len(x)

see the thread "Autocorrelation function: Convolution vs FFT"  from
the last two days.

same works with xcorr

Josef

>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> --David Ho
>
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