Investigating Fieldtrip

Grant McAuley gmcauley at LLU.EDU
Wed Mar 7 17:01:09 CET 2007


Thank you for your reply.

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:10 +0100, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> > Thanks Christian for your helpful reply.
> >
> >
> > FT is sounding very good!
>
> > My only immediate remaining question is about if FT is dependent on
> > the
> > MATLAB Signal Processing Toolbox (Statistic Toolbox does not
> > matter).
> >
> >
> > Definite confirmation here would be very helpful.
>
>
> For spectral estimation / analysis FT depends only on the FFT function
> which is part of the basic Matlab package. For signal filtering, you
> need the signal processing toolbox in order to design your filters,
> e.g., a 4th order Butterworth band pass filter, but if you generate
> the filter coefficients (or the polynomial coefficients of the
> transfer function) yourself, then you can use the FILTER function with
> those coefficients which is again part of the basic Matlab.
>
>
> I guess you're mainly interested in spectral analysis of your signal
> rather than filtering, so you should be able get away without the
> Signal Processing Toolbo (however, I would recommend getting a copy in
> order to take full advantage of all FT functionality).

Great, at this stage it looks like we can get by without the Signal
Processing Toolbox, and can expand if necessary in the future.

I will plan to 'dive in' to FT!

Thanks again,

~ Grant

>
> Hope that helps,
> Christian
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