Title

Discrete Lanczos derivatives of noisy data

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

International Journal of Computer Mathematics

Publication Date

5-1-2012

Abstract

Finite differences are frequently used to differentiate empirical functions, but standard differences tend to amplify the random error that is present in almost all empirical data. This paper uses higher-order Lanczos derivatives and discretized Legendre polynomials to generate minimum variance finite differences to approximate ordinary derivatives of all orders for a fixed discretization error magnitude. The resulting differences can be implemented as finite impulse response filters and are therefore very fast on a computer. © 2012 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Volume

89

Issue

7

First Page

916

Last Page

931

DOI

10.1080/00207160.2012.666348

ISSN

00207160

E-ISSN

10290265

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