;+ ; NAME: ; GAUSS1 ; ; AUTHOR: ; Craig B. Markwardt, NASA/GSFC Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20770 ; craigm@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov ; ; PURPOSE: ; Compute Gaussian curve given the mean, sigma and area. ; ; MAJOR TOPICS: ; Curve and Surface Fitting ; ; CALLING SEQUENCE: ; YVALS = GAUSS1(XVALS, [MEAN, SIGMA, AREA], SKEW=skew) ; ; DESCRIPTION: ; ; This routine computes the values of a Gaussian function whose ; X-values, mean, sigma, and total area are given. It is meant to be ; a demonstration for curve-fitting. ; ; XVALS can be an array of X-values, in which case the returned ; Y-values are an array as well. The second parameter to GAUSS1 ; should be an array containing the MEAN, SIGMA, and total AREA, in ; that order. ; ; INPUTS: ; X - Array of X-values. ; ; [MEAN, SIGMA, AREA] - the mean, sigma and total area of the ; desired Gaussian curve. ; ; INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: ; ; SKEW - You may specify a skew value. Default is no skew. ; ; PEAK - if set then AREA is interpreted as the peak value rather ; than the area under the peak. ; ; RETURNS: ; ; Returns the array of Y-values. ; ; EXAMPLE: ; ; p = [2.2D, 1.4D, 3000.D] ; x = dindgen(200)*0.1 - 10. ; y = gauss1(x, p) ; ; Computes the values of the Gaussian at equispaced intervals ; (spacing is 0.1). The gaussian has a mean of 2.2, standard ; deviation of 1.4, and total area of 3000. ; ; REFERENCES: ; ; MODIFICATION HISTORY: ; Written, Jul 1998, CM ; Correct bug in normalization, CM, 01 Nov 1999 ; Optimized for speed, CM, 02 Nov 1999 ; Added copyright notice, 25 Mar 2001, CM ; Added PEAK keyword, 30 Sep 2001, CM ; ; $Id: gauss1.pro,v 1.4 2001/10/13 17:41:48 craigm Exp $ ; ;- ; Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2001, Craig Markwardt ; This software is provided as is without any warranty whatsoever. ; Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute modified or ; unmodified copies is granted, provided this copyright and disclaimer ; are included unchanged. ;-