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Raiko17-Peridot
17-Peridot
July 1, 2015
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Why doesn't supsmooth yield a result?

  • July 1, 2015
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Hello folks,

I've got data here of a surface roughness measurement. I'm trying several smoothing functions in order to get the main features of the surface. medsmooth, ksmooth work, supsmooth however doesn't work. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I'm running "real" mathcad; i.e. MC15 on a 64 byte, Win7 machine. A file with data is attached.

Raiko

Best answer by AndyWesterman

I looked at the error message - the elements must be in ascending order.

A small program comparing 2 elements at a time shows 184 entries where 2 adjacent lines have the same value & I suspect it is this that supsmooth is complaining about.

Why the others don't ... who knows.

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AlanStevens19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
July 1, 2015

supsmooth works for me with Kr, but not with Ref.

Alan

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AndyWesterman12-AmethystAnswer
12-Amethyst
July 1, 2015

I looked at the error message - the elements must be in ascending order.

A small program comparing 2 elements at a time shows 184 entries where 2 adjacent lines have the same value & I suspect it is this that supsmooth is complaining about.

Why the others don't ... who knows.

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AlanStevens19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
July 1, 2015

Well done Andy, you are quite right!  I've just removed the repeated x-values in Ref and supsmooth works ok on what is left.

Alan

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