Gaussian Fitting under peaks

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1804Hz
1804Hz on 15 Apr 2022
Commented: Image Analyst on 16 Apr 2022
Is there a specific matlab function that would allow my program to estimate a guassian distrubution for each of the peaks found (in this case 5 peaks).

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 15 Apr 2022
Yes. I'm attaching a demo that can fit any number of Gaussians. It's setup for 6 in the demo but you can adapt it to 5 by changing the proper variable. Attach your data if you can't figure it out.
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1804Hz
1804Hz on 16 Apr 2022
If I wanted to find the start and end points of the peaks is there a built-in function i can use or do I need to make a for loop to identify it?
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 16 Apr 2022
As long as there are definite valleys between the peaks (and it's not just like a skewed hump) then you can use findpeaks(). Just negate the signal to find valleys instead of peaks
[valleyValues, indexesOfValleys] = findpeaks(-signal);
valleyValues = -valleyValues;
findpeaks() has lots of parameters to control how big or small the peaks is so you might have to tweak some of those.

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the cyclist
the cyclist on 15 Apr 2022
Edited: the cyclist on 15 Apr 2022
If you have the underlying data the fitgmdist function in the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox does this sort of fit. Here is some code I wrote, that fits an example (with just two peaks):
MU1 = 1;
SIGMA1 = 1;
MU2 = -3;
SIGMA2 = 1;
X = [mvnrnd(MU1,SIGMA1,1000);mvnrnd(MU2,SIGMA2,1000)];
figure
histogram(X,51)
options = statset('Display','final');
obj = fitgmdist(X,2,'Options',options)
26 iterations, log-likelihood = -4090.22 obj = Gaussian mixture distribution with 2 components in 1 dimensions Component 1: Mixing proportion: 0.499743 Mean: 1.0487 Component 2: Mixing proportion: 0.500257 Mean: -3.0288
The output obj has more stats in it.

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