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# spafdr

Estimate frequency response and spectrum using spectral analysis with frequency-dependent resolution

## Syntax

g = spafdr(data)
g = spafdr(data,Resol,w)

## Description

g = spafdr(data) estimates the transfer function and noise spectrum Φυ of the general linear model

$y\left(t\right)=G\left(q\right)u\left(t\right)+v\left(t\right)$

where Φυ(ω) is the spectrum of υ(t). data contains the output-input data as an iddata object. The data can be complex valued, and either time or frequency domain. It can also be an idfrd object containing frequency-response data. g is an idfrd object with the estimate of $G\left({e}^{i\omega }\right)$ at the frequencies ω specified by row vector w. g also includes information about the spectrum estimate of Φυ(ω) at the same frequencies. Both results are returned with estimated covariances, included in g. The normalization of the spectrum is the same as described in spa.

g = spafdr(data,Resol,w) specifies frequencies and frequency resolution.

### Frequencies

The frequency variable w is either specified as a row vector of frequencies, or as a cell array {wmin,wmax}. In the latter case the covered frequencies will be 50 logarithmically spaced points from wmin to wmax. You can change the number of points to NP by entering {wmin,wmax,NP}.

Omitting w or entering it as an empty matrix gives the default value, which is 100 logarithmically spaced frequencies between the smallest and largest frequency in data. For time-domain data, this means from 1/N*Ts to pi*Ts, where Ts is the sampling interval of data and N is the number of data.

### Resolution

The argument Resol defines the frequency resolution of the estimates. The resolution (measured in rad/s) is the size of the smallest detail in the frequency function and the spectrum that is resolved by the estimate. The resolution is a tradeoff between obtaining estimates with fine, reliable details, and suffering from spurious, random effects: The finer the resolution, the higher the variance in the estimate. Resol can be entered as a scalar (measured in rad/s), which defines the resolution over the whole frequency interval. It can also be entered as a row vector of the same length as w. Then Resol(k) is the local, frequency-dependent resolution around frequency w(k).

The default value of Resol, obtained by omitting it or entering it as the empty matrix, is Resol(k) = 2(w(k+1)-w(k)), adjusted upwards, so that a reasonable estimate is guaranteed. In all cases, the resolution is returned in the variable g.Report.WindowSize.