scipy.interpolate.interp1d

class scipy.interpolate.interp1d(x, y, kind='linear', axis=-1, copy=True, bounds_error=True, fill_value=np.nan, assume_sorted=False)

Interpolate a 1-D function.

x and y are arrays of values used to approximate some function f: y = f(x). This class returns a function whose call method uses interpolation to find the value of new points.

Parameters:

x : (N,) array_like

A 1-D array of real values.

y : (...,N,...) array_like

A N-D array of real values. The length of y along the interpolation axis must be equal to the length of x.

kind : str or int, optional

Specifies the kind of interpolation as a string (‘linear’, ‘nearest’, ‘zero’, ‘slinear’, ‘quadratic, ‘cubic’ where ‘slinear’, ‘quadratic’ and ‘cubic’ refer to a spline interpolation of first, second or third order) or as an integer specifying the order of the spline interpolator to use. Default is ‘linear’.

axis : int, optional

Specifies the axis of y along which to interpolate. Interpolation defaults to the last axis of y.

copy : bool, optional

If True, the class makes internal copies of x and y. If False, references to x and y are used. The default is to copy.

bounds_error : bool, optional

If True, a ValueError is raised any time interpolation is attempted on a value outside of the range of x (where extrapolation is necessary). If False, out of bounds values are assigned fill_value. By default, an error is raised.

fill_value : float, optional

If provided, then this value will be used to fill in for requested points outside of the data range. If not provided, then the default is NaN.

assume_sorted : bool, optional

If False, values of x can be in any order and they are sorted first. If True, x has to be an array of monotonically increasing values.

See also

UnivariateSpline

A more recent wrapper of the FITPACK routines.

splrep, splev, interp2d

Examples

>>> from scipy import interpolate
>>> x = np.arange(0, 10)
>>> y = np.exp(-x/3.0)
>>> f = interpolate.interp1d(x, y)

>>> xnew = np.arange(0,9, 0.1)
>>> ynew = f(xnew)   # use interpolation function returned by `interp1d`
>>> plt.plot(x, y, 'o', xnew, ynew, '-')
>>> plt.show()

Methods

__call__(x)

Evaluate the interpolant