NAME

PDL::Slatec - PDL interface to the slatec numerical programming library

SYNOPSIS

 use PDL::Slatec;

 ($ndeg, $r, $ierr, $a) = polyfit($x, $y, $w, $maxdeg, $eps);

DESCRIPTION

This module serves the dual purpose of providing an interface to parts of the slatec library and showing how to interface PDL to an external library. Using this library requires a fortran compiler; the source for the routines is provided for convenience.

Currently available are routines to: manipulate matrices; calculate FFT's; fit data using polynomials; and interpolate/integrate data using piecewise cubic Hermite interpolation.

Piecewise cubic Hermite interpolation (PCHIP)

PCHIP is the slatec package of routines to perform piecewise cubic Hermite interpolation of data. It features software to produce a monotone and "visually pleasing" interpolant to monotone data. According to Fritsch & Carlson ("Monotone piecewise cubic interpolation", SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 17, 2 (April 1980), pp. 238-246), such an interpolant may be more reasonable than a cubic spline if the data contains both "steep" and "flat" sections. Interpolation of cumulative probability distribution functions is another application. These routines are cryptically named (blame FORTRAN), beginning with 'ch', and accept either float or double piddles.

Most of the routines require an integer parameter called check; if set to 0, then no checks on the validity of the input data are made, otherwise these checks are made. The value of check can be set to 0 if a routine such as chim has already been successfully called.

• If not known, estimate derivative values for the points using the chim, chic, or chsp routines (the following routines require both the function (f) and derivative (d) values at a set of points (x)).
• Evaluate, integrate, or differentiate the resulting PCH function using the routines: chfd; chfe; chia; chid.
• If desired, you can check the monotonicity of your data using chcm.

eigsys

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a real positive definite symmetric matrix.

 ($eigvals,$eigvecs) = eigsys($mat)

Note: this function should be extended to calculate only eigenvalues if called in scalar context!

matinv

Inverse of a square matrix

 ($inv) = matinv($mat)

polyfit

Convenience wrapper routine about the polfit slatec function. Separates supplied arguments and return values.

Fit discrete data in a least squares sense by polynomials in one variable. Handles threading correctly--one can pass in a 2D PDL (as $y) and it will pass back a 2D PDL, the rows of which are the polynomial regression results (in $r corresponding to the rows of $y.

 ($ndeg, $r, $ierr, $a) = polyfit($x, $y, $w, $maxdeg, $eps);

 where on input:

 $x and $y are the values to fit to a polynomial.
 $w are weighting factors
 $maxdeg is the maximum degree of polynomial to use and 
 $eps is the required degree of fit.

 and on output:

 $ndeg is the degree of polynomial actually used
 $r is the values of the fitted polynomial 
 $ierr is a return status code, and
 $a is some working array or other
 $ps is modified to contain the rms error of the fit.

This version of polyfit handles bad values correctly. It strips them out of the $x variable and creates an appropriate $y variable containing indices of the non-bad members of $x before calling the Slatec routine polfit.

polycoef

Convenience wrapper routine around the pcoef slatec function. Separates supplied arguments and return values.

Convert the polyfit/polfit coefficients to Taylor series form.

 $tc = polycoef($l, $c, $a);

polyvalue

Convenience wrapper routine around the pvalue slatec function. Separates supplied arguments and return values.

For multiple input x positions, a corresponding y position is calculated.

The derivatives PDL is one dimensional (of size nder) if a single x position is supplied, two dimensional if more than one x position is supplied.

Use the coefficients generated by polyfit (or polfit) to evaluate the polynomial fit of degree l, along with the first nder of its derivatives, at a specified point.

 ($yfit, $yp) = polyvalue($l, $nder, $x, $a);

detslatec

compute the determinant of an invertible matrix

  $mat = zeroes(5,5); $mat->diagonal(0,1) .= 1; # unity matrix
  $det = detslatec $mat;

Usage:

  $determinant = detslatec $matrix;

  Signature: detslatec(mat(n,m); [o] det())

detslatec computes the determinant of an invertible matrix and barfs if the matrix argument provided is non-invertible. The matrix threads as usual.

This routine was previously known as det which clashes now with det which is provided by PDL::MatrixOps. For the moment PDL::Slatec will also load PDL::MatrixOps thereby making sure that older scripts work.

PDL::Slatec::fft

Fast Fourier Transform

  $v_in = pdl(1,0,1,0);
  ($azero,$a,$b) = PDL::Slatec::fft($v_in);

PDL::Slatec::fft is a convenience wrapper for ezfftf, and performs a Fast Fourier Transform on an input vector $v_in. The return values are the same as for ezfftf.

PDL::Slatec::rfft

reverse Fast Fourier Transform

  $v_out = PDL::Slatec::rfft($azero,$a,$b);
  print $v_in, $vout
  [1 0 1 0] [1 0 1 0]

PDL::Slatec::rfft is a convenience wrapper for ezfftb, and performs a reverse Fast Fourier Transform. The input is the same as the output of PDL::Slatec::fft, and the output of rfft is a data vector, similar to what is input into PDL::Slatec::fft.

• 0 if successful.
• > 0 if there were ierr switches in the direction of monotonicity (data still valid).
• -1 if nelem($x) < 2.
• -3 if $x is not strictly increasing.

• 1 if first derivative at x(0) is given in vc(0).
• 2 if second derivative at x(0) is given in vc(0).
• 3 to use the 3-point difference formula for d(0). (Reverts to the default b.c. if n < 3)
• 4 to use the 4-point difference formula for d(0). (Reverts to the default b.c. if n < 4)
• 5 to set d(0) so that the second derivative is continuous at x(1). (Reverts to the default b.c. if n < 4)

The values for ic(1) are the same as above, except that the first-derivative value is stored in vc(1) for cases 1 and 2. The values of $vc need only be set if options 1 or 2 are chosen for $ic.

Set $mflag = 0 if interpolant is required to be monotonic in each interval, regardless of the data. This causes $d to be set to 0 at all switch points. Set $mflag to be non-zero to use a formula based on the 3-point difference formula at switch points. If $mflag > 0, then the interpolant at swich points is forced to not deviate from the data by more than $mflag*dfloc, where dfloc is the maximum of the change of $f on this interval and its two immediate neighbours. If $mflag < 0, no such control is to be imposed.

The piddle $wk is only needed for work space. However, I could not get it to work as a temporary variable, so you must supply it; it is a 1D piddle with 2*n elements.

Error status returned by $ierr:

• 0 if successful.
• 1 if ic(0) < 0 and d(0) had to be adjusted for monotonicity.
• 2 if ic(1) < 0 and d(n-1) had to be adjusted for monotonicity.
• 3 if both 1 and 2 are true.
• -1 if n < 2.
• -3 if $x is not strictly increasing.
• -4 if abs(ic(0)) > 5.
• -5 if abs(ic(1)) > 5.
• -6 if both -4 and -5 are true.
• -7 if nwk < 2*(n-1).

• 0 to set d(0) so that the third derivative is continuous at x(1).
• 1 if first derivative at x(0) is given in vc(0).
• 2 if second derivative at x(0) is given in vc(0).
• 3 to use the 3-point difference formula for d(0). (Reverts to the default b.c. if n < 3.)
• 4 to use the 4-point difference formula for d(0). (Reverts to the default b.c. if n < 4.)

The values for ic(1) are the same as above, except that the first-derivative value is stored in vc(1) for cases 1 and 2. The values of $vc need only be set if options 1 or 2 are chosen for $ic.

The piddle $wk is only needed for work space. However, I could not get it to work as a temporary variable, so you must supply it; it is a 1D piddle with 2*n elements.

Error status returned by $ierr:

• 0 if successful.
• -1 if nelem($x) < 2.
• -3 if $x is not strictly increasing.
• -4 if ic(0) < 0 or ic(0) > 4.
• -5 if ic(1) < 0 or ic(1) > 4.
• -6 if both of the above are true.
• -7 if nwk < 2*n.
• -8 in case of trouble solving the linear system for the interior derivative values.

• 0 if successful.
• >0 if extrapolation was performed at ierr points (data still valid).
• -1 if nelem($x) < 2
• -3 if $x is not strictly increasing.
• -4 if nelem($xe) < 1.
• -5 if an error has occurred in a lower-level routine, which should never happen.

• 0 if successful.
• >0 if extrapolation was performed at ierr points (data still valid).
• -1 if nelem($x) < 2
• -3 if $x is not strictly increasing.
• -4 if nelem($xe) < 1.

• 0 if successful.
• 1 if $a lies outside $x.
• 2 if $b lies outside $x.
• 3 if both 1 and 2 are true.
• -1 if nelem($x) < 2
• -3 if $x is not strictly increasing.
• -4 if an error has occurred in a lower-level routine, which should never happen.

• 0 if successful.
• -1 if nelem($x) < 2.
• -3 if $x is not strictly increasing.
• -4 if $ia or $ib is out of range.

• -3 if function is probably decreasing
• -1 if function is strictly decreasing
• 0 if function is constant
• 1 if function is strictly increasing
• 2 if function is non-monotonic
• 3 if function is probably increasing

If abs(ismon(i)) == 3, the derivative values are near the boundary of the monotonicity region. A small increase produces non-monotonicity, whereas a decrease produces strict monotonicity.

The above applies to i = 0 .. nelem($x)-1. The last element of $ismon indicates whether the entire function is monotonic over $x.

Error status returned by $ierr:

• 0 if successful.
• -1 if n < 2.
• -3 if $x is not strictly increasing.

ignore function for now although code is in slatec/ directory

• 0 - Quadruple knots at the first and last points.
• 1 - Replicate lengths of extreme subintervals: t( 0 ) = t( 1 ) = x(0) - (x(1)-x(0)) and t(m+3) = t(m+2) = x(n-1) + (x(n-1)-x(n-2))
• 2 - Periodic placement of boundary knots: t( 0 ) = t( 1 ) = x(0) - (x(n-1)-x(n-2)) and t(m+3) = t(m+2) = x(n) + (x(1)-x(0))
• <0 - Assume the nknots and t were set in a previous call.

nknots is the number of knots and may be changed by the routine. If knotyp >= 0, nknots will be set to ndim+4, otherwise it is an input variable, and an error will occur if its value is not equal to ndim+4.

t is the array of 2*n+4 knots for the B-representation and may be changed by the routine. If knotyp >= 0, t will be changed so that the interior double knots are equal to the x-values and the boundary knots set as indicated above, otherwise it is assumed that t was set by a previous call (no check is made to verify that the data forms a legitimate knot sequence).

Error status returned by $ierr:

• 0 if successful.
• -4 if knotyp > 2.
• -5 if knotyp < 0 and nknots != 2*n + 4.

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1997 Tuomas J. Lukka. Copyright (C) 2000 Tim Jenness, Doug Burke. All rights reserved. There is no warranty. You are allowed to redistribute this software / documentation under certain conditions. For details, see the file COPYING in the PDL distribution. If this file is separated from the PDL distribution, the copyright notice should be included in the file.