Linear combination of two waves?

Hi,

The first path I looked to your request was a simple linear combination using 2D polynomial fit but I could not proceed because as you mentioned the waves are different length.  

Fit_vlp1Peaks is 611points

fitBdpDmso is 595 points

fitEcPeaks is 311 points

and a quick graph does reveal a linear combination seems likely.

Is there a bit more to your request?

Andy

Do you have any suggestions for how to go about finding the linear combination? I tried concatenating fit_bdpdmso with fit_ecpeaks, then using MatrixLLS:

Concatenate {fit_bdpdmso, fit_ecpeaks}, ecAndBdp
MatrixLLS ecAndBdp fit_vlp1peaks
print m_B[0], m_B[1]

But the output of the last statement was just 0 0, which are supposedly the coefficients for the LC.

You can do this with curve fitting.

The waves on the plot are buried within a package datafolder. First go to the data browser and set the data folder to that of your fit and reference waves. Better still, make a copy of the waves in your working data folder, rather than trying to work in a folder that's reserved for a package.

Then open the curve fitting dialog and create a new fit function.

the independent variable is x, and you need two coefficients a and b.

in the body of the function type this:

wave ec = fit_ecpeaks, bd = fit_bdpdmso
f(x) = a * ec(x) + b * bd(x)

then return to the curve fitting dialog, set initial guesses for a and b, and you're ready to fit.

Ah it worked like a gem–thank you so much!

Maybe for Igor 9 I will create an example in the Curve Fitting help for this. We get this question about once every couple of months or so.