Questions tagged [filtering]

Questions on filtering or selecting data based on certain criteria. This is to be used with primary tags such as list-manipulation, string-manipulation or signal-processing, with the primary tag indicating the specific use case.

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Create a set of buttons to change background color of next cell

I came across the following snippet (sorry can't find original location to give credit). I would like pressing any of the generated buttons to automatically go to the next cell and color it the ...
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Position in nested list under criterium

I start from the following exemplary list, e.g., list = {{1, 2, 2}, {3, 2, 4}, {3, 5, 2}, {4, 5, 6}, {2, 5, 6}, {2, 5, 2}}; I learned how to to pick out ...
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Intersection of two-dimensional lists in one axis

I've these two lists: l1 = {{a, 1}, {b, 2}, {c, 3}, {d, 4}}; l2 = {{b, 5}, {d, 6}, {f, 7}}; Every list element is a two-coordinates point. I want to retrieve ...
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Ideal/Brick wall Low/High-pass filters: Fourier approach not working

I am trying to take a signal (as a list) and separate it into the low frequency and high frequency parts around some split frequency f. Given that what little signal processing I ever studied is now ...
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row operations in matrix

I got a matrix which has Error and Blank inside. I have to replace Error with ...
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Select the same elements from lists

I need a special intersectant operation for List other than Set. There maybe some duplicate elements, also need to count instead of merging as Intersection. For ...
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Selecting integers which are not a member in an ordered list of integers

I have an ordered list of integers, i.e.: list = {1,3,5,6,8,10,12,15}; and I want to know if there is a fast way to get a list of the integers that do not appear ...
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how to count or extract Cases out of list of association that matches pattern

I have list of associations ...
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Combine lists that meet specific criteria, and filter them out

I am trying to manage a matrix in Mathematica that has the general architecture {{a1,b1},{a2,b2}...} I would like to combine all of the lists that have the same ...
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List manipulation to select elements

I have a list of data with the following structure: data = {{1,1, result1}, ..., {i, j, resultij}, ..., {30,30, result3030}} Namely the first and second elements ...
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How do I remove particular $x$ and $y$ values from a list of data points?

I have data points of the form {x,y,z}: s = {{0, 1, 2}, {3, 4, 5}, {6, 7, 8}} And I need to remove entire data points based ...
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Select from nested list and dropping non matching elements

I have the following nested list ...
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Selecting the numbers in data that satisfy a relationship with respect to a threshold [closed]

Rip01 is a list of numbers. It's length is 128. PercentualeTaglio is a number. I would like to create a list which selects from <...
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Matching DateObject with Cases

OK, here is something that is me missing the obvious. I have an Excel spreadsheet consisting of 2 columns and 5 rows. The first column is formatted in Excel as a dd-mmm-yy date. The second column ...
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Performance of Select

I have a dataset of 3D coordinates with a length of about $ 4\times 10^6 $. From this volume I am sequentially selecting coordinates along one axis and manipulating this subset. My question: Can the ...
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subscript index notation select certain value [closed]

I have an indexed variable Subscript[p, s, m, t] established using the Notation method. There are various expressions where s, <...
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Kernel crash with KeySelect and repeated keys on list of rules [closed]

After running KeySelect[{"a" -> 0, "a" -> 1}, True &] my kernel either hangs forever (possibly with the eventual warning that "the kernel is not ...
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Selecting data from multiple columns

Mathematica has almost the following example in the documentation: ...
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How to remove circled noise from image

Consider a simplified example: noise ...
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Selecting Values from a List Above a Certain Number

So lets say I create a list of pairs like so: list = {{1, 100}, {2, 10000}, {3, 100400}, {4,50000}, {5,2000}} Now, I want to find what entries satisfy the ...
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How can I code a "smart" version of Chop?

Small is a relative concept for human. Sometimes $0.1$ is small, such as in {0.1,2,4,5}. sometime $100$ also is small,such as in ...
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Picking first row of a matrix with a positive first element

I have a table of order $30 \times 3$. I want to pick a row from this table which is first to have its first element to be positive, irrespective of the values of the rest two elements. For ...
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Deleting sublists from lists

I have a list consisting of symbols and integers. I would like to delete the integers from the list only if a symbol precedes and follows each integer: ...
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How to select points from a table that are within some region

there, I encountered this problem while coding: I generate a table in the r-z plane of cylindrical coordinates: ...
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Convert MATLAB script to find element positions satisfying more criteria

I am new in this community so forgive me if this is a sort of re-post. I am trying to convert this MATLAB script: ...
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How to pick elements from a list with variable condition

Let A and M sets of numbers, with Length[A]=15. I want to do something like ...
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Select or Drop time-value pairs in TimeSeries

I have an EventSeries object and I would like to keep/drop some time-value pairs in it based on a criterion, e.g., comparing to a threshold or what have you. What ...
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FIR filter and the relation between Sample rate and cut-off frequency

I have problem to unterstand the logic of the cut-off frequency of the FIR filter. Suppose my sample rate is 2MHz and I want to design a lowpass filter with a cut-off frequency 100Hz. What will be $\...
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How to filter data?

I work with this dataset: ...
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Use cases to select subelements by Regex

I have a nested list and would like to select a sub set of lists using a RegEx and I would prefer to use patterns (mainly for readability). ...
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Eliminating items from list by rule

I have a list: testList={{"a","b 3","cd","ef 23"},{"z 12","y","x"}} and wish to obtain resultList={{"b 3","ef 23"},{"z 12"}} ...
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Selecting list elements depending if they contain sub-list elements

I have: aa = {{1, 1}, {2, 2}} bb = {{4, 4}, {5, 5}} cc = {{a, {1, 1}}, {b, {2, 2}}, {c, {3, 3}}, {d, {4, 4}}, {e, {5, 5}}, {f, {6, 6}}} How can I select all ...
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Selecting elements in a list by a test on its image over a map [closed]

I want to select all elements x in a list, which i'll name List such that GCD[x,n]=1, for a ...
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Filter elements in descending order

I want to solve the following problem efficiently: Given a list of pairs (value, data), I want to remove all the pairs so that the resulting list has the value property of its elements sorted. That ...
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How to use Cases for nested list?

For example, we have a list ={1,2,3,4,5,6}, we can use Cases[list,x_/; 3<x<10] to pick up ...
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Sorting of permutations

I would like to output the list of possible permutations of 4 indices but sorted in a certain way. I know that I can the list of possible permutations with ...
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Dealing with jumps when using MovingAverage

The data referred to as testdat in this question is here if you would like to fiddle with it. Here it is as a ListPlot. I am trying to plot the "average" of this data and other data like it (and ...
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Selecting 1st $n$ elements meeting criterion from very long list [duplicate]

I need to select n elements from a list, which satisfy a condition. I need something like ...
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Separating completely independent systems of BooleanCountingFunctions

I have an augmented matrix as a representation of many instances of BooleanCountingFunction[{k},n][vars], and I want to separate it out into many smaller subsystems ...
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high pass filter without losing detail

I have troubles doing a simple high pass filtering... Downloading the test data, you can see that overimposed on the signal there are some low frequencies and an almost constant slope, that I'd like ...
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What KalmanEstimator elements tells us?

I'm looking for an interpretation of Kalman filter in discrete time. You know, if we consider an state space on the form of the form ...
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GaborFilter for pattern extraction

I am trying to use the GaborFilter to extract features such as pixel clusters forming straight lines in a specific direction from images. How ever the Gabor filter is proving hard for me to understand ...
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How to select some sublist in a list of list?

Hopping to be clear, I ask this question after some hour of unsucceeded work I have this list ...
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How to find a position from list coordinates data points

I have list coordinates data points ...
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Slot # corresponding to subset of a list in select

Is it possible to use # in the select function preserving the structure of the list? Here an example of what I mean. Let's say I want to select all the pairs where the first element is 1: ...
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Select dataset columns after GroupBy

Very basic question. Probably showing my ignorance, but if I have a dataset like the example in the docs ...
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Numerical error or mistake when filtering using Fourier?

I am comparing the filtering method using a recurrence filter with filtering using Fourier. I think both methods should give the same answer but they differ by a small amount that could be numerical ...
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Selecting positive real numbers from a list?

Is there a short method to select positive real numbers from a list containing both reals and complex numbers? Thank you!
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Select out of nested list

I have a nested list: {{{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}}, {{1}, {2, 3, 4, 5, 6}}, {{1, 2}, {3}, {4, 5, 6}}} and would like to select only those lists out of it with two items ...
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Merge associations always taking the value that satisfies a given test

I have associations look like this: data = {<|a -> {2, l1}, b -> {3, l1}|>, <|a -> {3, l2}, b -> {2, l2}|>} I want the result: ...
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