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# peak_widths

scipy.signal.peak_widths(x, peaks, rel_height=0.5, prominence_data=None, wlen=None)

  Calculate the width of each peak in a signal.

  This function calculates the width of a peak in samples at a relative distance to the peak’s height and prominence.

  Parameters:
    x sequence

      A signal with peaks.

    peaks sequence

      Indices of peaks in x.

    rel_height float, optional

      Chooses the relative height at which the peak width is measured as a percentage of its prominence. 1.0 calculates the width of the peak at its lowest contour line while 0.5 evaluates at half the prominence height. Must be at least 0. See notes for further explanation.

    prominence_data tuple, optional

      A tuple of three arrays matching the output of `peak_prominences` when called with the same arguments x and peaks. This data are calculated internally if not provided.

    wlen int, optional

      A window length in samples passed to `peak_prominences` as an optional argument for internal calculation of prominence_data. This argument is ignored if prominence_data is given.

  Returns:
    widths ndarray

      The widths for each peak in samples.

    width_heights ndarray

      The height of the contour lines at which the widths where evaluated.

    left_ips, right_ips ndarray

      Interpolated positions of left and right intersection points of a horizontal line at the respective evaluation height.

  Raises:
    ValueError

      If prominence_data is supplied but doesn’t satisfy the condition `0 <= left_base <= peak <= right_base < x.shape[0]` for each peak, has the wrong dtype, is not C-contiguous or does not have the same shape.

  Warns:
    PeakPropertyWarning

      Raised if any calculated width is 0. This may stem from the supplied prominence_data or if rel_height is set to 0.

  Warning

  This function may return unexpected results for data containing NaNs. To avoid this, NaNs should either be removed or replaced.

  See also

  `find_peaks`

    Find peaks inside a signal based on peak properties.

  `peak_prominences`

    Calculate the prominence of peaks.

  Notes

  The basic algorithm to calculate a peak’s width is as follows:

  - Calculate the evaluation height \(h_{eval}\) with the formula \(h_{eval} = h_{Peak} - P \cdot R\), where \(h_{Peak}\) is the height of the peak itself, \(P\) is the peak’s prominence and \(R\) a positive ratio specified with the argument rel_height.

  - Draw a horizontal line at the evaluation height to both sides, starting at the peak’s current vertical position until the lines either intersect a slope, the signal border or cross the vertical position of the peak’s base (see `peak_prominences` for a definition). For the first case, intersection with the signal, the true intersection point is estimated with linear interpolation.

  - Calculate the width as the horizontal distance between the chosen endpoints on both sides. As a consequence of this the maximal possible width for each peak is the horizontal distance between its bases.

  As shown above to calculate a peak’s width its prominence and bases must be known. You can supply these yourself with the argument prominence_data. Otherwise, they are internally calculated (see `peak_prominences`).

  Added in version 1.1.0.

  Examples

      >>> import numpy as np
      >>> from scipy.signal import chirp, find_peaks, peak_widths
      >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

  Create a test signal with two overlaid harmonics

      >>> x = np.linspace(0, 6 * np.pi, 1000)
      >>> x = np.sin(x) + 0.6 * np.sin(2.6 * x)

  Find all peaks and calculate their widths at the relative height of 0.5 (contour line at half the prominence height) and 1 (at the lowest contour line at full prominence height).

      >>> peaks, _ = find_peaks(x)
      >>> results_half = peak_widths(x, peaks, rel_height=0.5)
      >>> results_half[0]  # widths
      array([ 64.25172825,  41.29465463,  35.46943289, 104.71586081,
              35.46729324,  41.30429622, 181.93835853,  45.37078546])
      >>> results_full = peak_widths(x, peaks, rel_height=1)
      >>> results_full[0]  # widths
      array([181.9396084 ,  72.99284945,  61.28657872, 373.84622694,
          61.78404617,  72.48822812, 253.09161876,  79.36860878])

  Plot signal, peaks and contour lines at which the widths where calculated

      >>> plt.plot(x)
      >>> plt.plot(peaks, x[peaks], "x")
      >>> plt.hlines(*results_half[1:], color="C2")
      >>> plt.hlines(*results_full[1:], color="C3")
      >>> plt.show()