INTERPOLATION

INTERPOLATION interpolated values corresponding to the given abscissa targets

Synopsis

INTERPOLATION(abscissae,ordinates,targets,interpolation)

Arguments

abscissae: ordered abscissae of the given data points

ordinates: ordinates of the given data points

targets: abscissae of the interpolated data

interpolation: method of interpolation, defaults to 0 ('linear')

Description

The output consists always of one column of numbers.

Possible interpolation methods are:

0: linear;

1: linear with averaging;

2: staircase;

3: staircase with averaging;

4: natural cubic spline;

5: natural cubic spline with averaging.

Note

The abscissae must be given in increasing order. If any of interpolation methods 1 ('linear with averaging'), 3 ('staircase with averaging'), and 5 ('natural cubic spline with averaging') is used, the number of returned values is one less than the number of targets and the targets values must be given in increasing order. Strings and empty cells in abscissae and ordinates are ignored. If several target data are provided they must be in the same column in consecutive cells.

See also

PERIODOGRAM.