matplotlib power spectral density (PSD) value discrepancy

What version of mpl are you using? These functions got a lot of work between 1.3 and 1.4.

I also suspects that there is a normalization issue going on with power vs power density.

Tom

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 22:28 xkryptor <xkryptor@…287…> wrote:

Hi all,

I tried calculating the power spectral density using matplotlib mlab function psd (). I plotted using two methods:

  1. At first I plot it directly using plt.psd (red line in plot)
  2. Then I output the values from psd() to variables and plotting the
    variables (blue line in plot)

The code I used:

power, freqs = plt.psd(P * 100000, len(P), Fs = 1 / dt, scale_by_freq=0)
plt.psd(P * 100000, len(P), 1 / dt, scale_by_freq=0)
plt.plot(freqs, power)

But the plots are different, I expected it to be coincident. From where does the discrepancy arise?

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What version of mpl are you using? These functions got a lot of work
between 1.3 and 1.4.

Tom,

Sorry, I answered only in his parallel github issue. matplotlib power spectral density (PSD) value discrepancy · Issue #3927 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub. I'm closing it now. The upshot is that psd returns the power but plots it in db.

Eric

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On 2014/12/17, 5:37 AM, Thomas Caswell wrote:

I also suspects that there is a normalization issue going on with power
vs power density.

Tom

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 22:28 xkryptor <xkryptor@...287... > <mailto:xkryptor@…287…>> wrote:

    Hi all,

      I tried calculating the power spectral density using matplotlib
    mlab function psd (). I plotted using two methods:

      1. At first I plot it directly using plt.psd (red line in plot)
      2. Then I output the values from psd() to variables and plotting the
         variables (blue line in plot)

    The code I used:

    power, freqs = plt.psd(P * 100000, len(P), Fs = 1 / dt, scale_by_freq=0)
    plt.psd(P * 100000, len(P), 1 / dt, scale_by_freq=0)
    plt.plot(freqs, power)

    But the plots are different, I expected it to be coincident. From
    where does the discrepancy arise?

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