scatstat2 documentation
The scatstat2 function returns statistical values of all points within a given radius of each value. This is similar to taking a moving mean, but points do not need to be equally spaced.
See also scatstat1.
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Syntax
zbar = scatstat2(x,y,z,radius) zbar = scatstat2(x,y,z,radius,fun) ybar = scatstat1(...,options)
Description
zbar = scatstat2(x,y,z,radius) returns the mean of all z values within specified radius at each point (x,y).
zbar = scatstat2(x,y,z,radius,fun) applies any function fun to z values, default fun is @mean, but it could be anything you want, even your own anonymous function.
zbar = scatstat2(...,options) allows any options that the function accepts. For example, 'omitnan'.
Example: Local median
Consider this noisy data set of 5000 scattered points:
N = 5000; x = randi(750,N,1); y = randi(750,N,1); % z contains *real* structure, plus lots of noise: z = sind(x) + cosd(y) + 3*randn(size(x)); scatter(x,y,10,z,'filled') axis image title 'noisy scattered 2D data'
It almost looks like there's nothing there but noise. Filter out the high-frequency noise by taking the local median within a 75 unit radius:
z_median = scatstat2(x,y,z,75,@median); scatter(x,y,10,z_median,'filled') axis image title 'local median'
Author info:
This function was written by Chad A. Greene of the University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), June 2016.