Optimal intergation

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Mon, 04/06/2009 - 02:28 am

Hi,

I am new in this forum and I just started to use Igor. I have a 2D experimental data which I would like to integrate. However, I would like to integrate in a way that it will optimize the integration instead of calculating the area. Do you know how I could do it using Igor?
I really, really would appreciate your help.
Thanks
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking for. Do you mean that you have an integral equation that models your data, and you want to do a curve fit to your data? That can be done, but it isn't easy. To help you, I will need more details.

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

April 6, 2009 at 11:15 am - Permalink

Thanks for your reply. I have a XY data which I want to integrate over a X range. Usually, I would calculate the area (using area function) of the graph in order to get the integer. However, I was wondering if there is any other function (nor Area) that calculate an optimized integer. Hope I explained better...
Thanks

April 7, 2009 at 03:19 am - Permalink

Dear tmc,
this is still not quite clear. Please define what you mean by "optimized integer" (optimized in which way?).
Wolfgang Harneit

April 7, 2009 at 11:51 am - Permalink