有没有办法在gnuplot中绘制平均值?

时间:2012-07-20 19:53:34

标签: gnuplot numerical-analysis

假设我有一个包含两列数据file.dat的文件。 我通常用

绘制它
plot "file.dat" u 1:2

我希望平均超过10(例如)前一点和后面的10个点,并将其绘制在同一个图上。 我可以使用一些外部脚本轻松地做到这一点,我在其中创建另一列:

for(i=-10;i<=10;++i)
  $3[j] += $2[j-i]

但是,我想知道在gnuplot中这样做的方法。 我的下一步是进行高斯平均。

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:8)

这也许是令人惊讶的,并没有内置于gnuplot。由于gnuplot如何将数据作为流处理,因此没有很好的方法来处理gnuplot中的单个数据点,也没有处理数据点的范围。

关于gnuplot的一个好处是它可以轻松地调用外部脚本和工具。如果你想使用外部脚本来处理gnuplot中的数据,你可以这样做:

plot "<script.py data.dat" u 1:2

例如,您可以使用下面的python脚本。它有点矫枉过正,但你可以在脚本或命令行中设置硬编码的参数值。

#!/usr/bin/python2.7

import sys 

if (len(sys.argv) > 6): 
 print ""
 print "This script takes one mandatory argument, the name of a file containing"
 print "data to be plotted.  It takes up to four optional arguments as follows:"
 print " 1) the number of points before a data point to add into average."
 print " 2) the number of points after a data point to add into average."
 print " 3) the column number of y data (first column is column 1)"
 print " 4) the column number of x data (first column is column 1)"
 print ""
 exit()

# set variable defaults
box_back = 10   # number of points before current point to add into average
box_front = 10  # number of points after current point to add into average
y_col = 2       # column number of y data (first column is column 1)
x_col = 1       # column number of x data (first column is column 1)

# assign variables from command line arguments
inputFileName = str(sys.argv[1])
if (len(sys.argv) > 2): 
 box_back = int(sys.argv[2])
if (len(sys.argv) > 3): 
 box_front = int(sys.argv[3])
if (len(sys.argv) > 4): 
 y_col = int(sys.argv[4])
if (len(sys.argv) > 5): 
 x_col = int(sys.argv[5])

# open input file
f = open(inputFileName)

# make list from lines in file
lines = f.readlines()

# make sure boxcar average will work
if ((box_back + box_front + 1) > len(lines)):
 print ""
 print "ERROR: too many points for boxcar averaging."
 print ""
 exit()

# this is the number of points encompassed in the boxcar average
num_points = box_back + box_front + 1 

# this variable is the running sum.
sum_vals = 0

# add up values for first boxcar average
for i_ in range(0,num_points):
 sum_vals += float(lines[i_].split()[y_col-1])
print float(lines[box_back].split()[x_col-1]),sum_vals/num_points

# each subsequent average differs only in the first and last points from the
# previous average.
for i_ in range(box_back+1,len(lines)-box_front):
 sum_vals += float(lines[i_+box_front].split()[y_col-1])
 sum_vals -= float(lines[i_-box_back-1].split()[y_col-1])
 print float(lines[i_].split()[x_col-1]),sum_vals/num_points