Peak-to-peak intervals
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Purpose
Calculate intervals between successive peaks of a signal
Description
This function calculates the intervals between successive
peaks/spikes in a signal and returns them as a new time series.
Parameters are:
- window wsize : size (in x-units) of the window to be
slided along the signal;
This parameter determines the minimum distance of two successive peaks
to be detected: Setting this value higher leads to the loss of neighbored
smaller peaks. Therefore the window criterion can be used to filter out
unwanted secondary peaks. Setting this value to 0 turns off windowing, thus
considering all peaks in the signal.
- the type of peaks peaktype, which is either
- "Maxima" (0) or
- "Minima" (1)
- crossing, which means the choice whether a threshold
crossing between peaks is
- "not checked" (0) or
- "checked" (1),
If this is turned on (1), the function only detects a peak if the
threshold line has crossed by the signal after the previous peak.
- the threshold value thresh, meaning that only maxima (minima)
above (below) this threshold are detected; set this value higher (lower)
to omit local extrema;
- axistype, determining the type of x-axis for the output, either
- "Time" (0) - The peak intervals are plotted over the
continuous time axis or
- "Beats" (1) - The peak intervals are plotted against the
number of peaks.
The total number of peaks detected by "Peak-to-peak intervals" will appear in the message window.
Example
"Peak-to-peak intervals" is useful to detect rhythms and deviations from periodicity in a signal showing peaks or iterated patterns.
Try applying the function to the sample data file ecg.dpa.
Tips
Set window size to 0 if no windowing is needed. Note, however, that in most cases windowing will be handsome to eliminate small intermediate peaks that accompany the dominant peaks to be extracted.
Macro Synopsis
y = PeakToPeakIntervals(x,ws,peaktype,crossing,thresh,axistype);
signal x,y;
float ws;
option peaktype, crossing;
float thresh;
option axistype;
Modules
Nonlinear
Related Functions
Post event scan, Post event time histogram, Synchronicity histogram.