Re: Programming problems
Helge Stanjek ( t9211ac@wsc18.lrz-muenchen.de )
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:07:56 +0200
>Hi to all:
>
>I'm making a X-Ray diffraction analysis program but I've got a little
>problem. I need a good function to find the maximun intensity point of a
>peak in a diagram. I must use the second derivate to calculate this point
>but I don't know an effective function to make this.
>
>Anyone has ever use one function like this to computer methods?....
You may use the smoothing functions given by Savitzky & Golay (Analytical
Chemistry 36: 1627-1639 & 44:1906-1909), which allow also the computation
of derivatives.
Good luck,
Helge