As I mentioned in my comment, the easiest way to integrate a list of values is to use Interpolation
with Integrate
or NIntegrate
. As Jens notedJens noted, the upgrade information for ListIntegrate
, an obsolete function also mentions the same thing. For the sake of completeness, here's how you'd do it:
With[{if = Interpolation[(* list of {x, y} pairs *), InterpolationOrder -> k},
Integrate[if[x], {x, Sequence @@ if["Domain"][[1]]}]
]
If you really do wish to use Simpson's rule specifically (perhaps, for a homework or to reproduce some other result), you can also do what Daniel suggested, which is to set up the vector for Simpson's rule (or the 3/8ths rule), $\{1,4,2,4,2,\ldots,4,2,1\}$ and use Dot
.