I have some one-dimensional data and put it with a spline. Then I want to find the inflection points (ignoring the saddle points). Now I am looking for extremes of my first output using scipy.signal.argrelmin (and argrelmax) for the set of values โโgenerated by splev.
import scipy.interpolate
import scipy.optimize
import scipy.signal
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import operator
y = [-1, 5, 6, 4, 2, 5, 8, 5, 1]
x = np.arange(0, len(y))
tck = scipy.interpolate.splrep(x, y, s=0)
print 'roots', scipy.interpolate.sproot(tck)
xnew = np.arange(0, len(y), 0.01)
ynew = scipy.interpolate.splev(xnew, tck, der=0)
ynew_deriv = scipy.interpolate.splev(xnew, tck, der=1)
min_idxs = scipy.signal.argrelmin(ynew_deriv)
max_idxs = scipy.signal.argrelmax(ynew_deriv)
mins = zip(xnew[min_idxs].tolist(), ynew_deriv[min_idxs].tolist())
maxs = zip(xnew[max_idxs].tolist(), ynew_deriv[max_idxs].tolist())
inflection_points = sorted(mins + maxs, key=operator.itemgetter(0))
print 'inflection_points', inflection_points
plt.legend(['data','Cubic Spline', '1st deriv'])
plt.plot(x, y, 'o',
xnew, ynew, '-',
xnew, ynew_deriv, '-')
plt.show()
But that seems terribly wrong. I think there is an opportunity to find what I am looking for without generating so many values. Something like sproot, but applicable to the second output, maybe?