scipy UnivariateSpline fails with multivalued X

Question

scipy UnivariateSpline does not allow multivalued X. I read that this has been changed, but does not seem to work me. I am using the latest version, having just used pip to try to download, which says that I have the latest.

I have tried changing s (smoothing) from 0 and None (which is defined as X must be strictly increasing), but this doesn't fix the problem.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.interpolate import UnivariateSpline

x=[152,152,152,152,152,159,159,159,159,159,166,166,166,166,166,174,174,174,174,174,181,181,181,181,181,188,188,188,188,188,194,194,194,194,194,202,202,202,202,202,208,208,208,208,208,215,215,215,215,215,222,222,222,222,222,229,229,229,229,229,236,236,236,236,236,243,243,243,243,243,250,250,250,250,250,258,258,258,258]

y=[-1.31639523,-1.90045889,-1.81769285,-1.25702203,-1.31975784,-0.76206863,-0.74170737,-0.66029284,-0.58124809,-0.49593701,-0.19309943,0.02254396,-0.04614866,0.06709774,0.10436002,0.577175,0.56809403,0.89547559,0.60922195,0.76220672,1.0461253,1.1304339,1.56360338,1.34189828,1.41658105,1.98677786,2.40487089,2.20431052,1.91072699,2.49328809,2.670556,2.85024397,3.24333426,2.44841554,3.14604703,3.39128172,3.78063788,3.21446612,3.07158159,3.79503965,3.40717945,4.02417242,3.70708767,4.00729682,4.25504517,4.28874564,3.9356614,4.30337567,4.02388633,4.65376986,4.33884509,4.68839858,4.10508666,4.26236997,4.53098529,5.03443645,4.07940011,4.3033351,4.43476139,4.80221614,4.49558967,4.5052504,4.40289487,5.15433152,5.1330299,4.30299696,4.47974301,5.34886789,4.60896298,5.35997675,4.40204983,5.50162549,4.3056854,4.87120463,5.36265274,4.33578634,5.06347439,4.46811258,5.30920785]

s = 0.1 # set smoothing to non-zero
spl = UnivariateSpline(x, y, s=s)

I get this error message :- spl = UnivariateSpline(x, y, s=s) File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\scipy\interpolate\fitpack2.py", line 177, in __init__ raise ValueError('x must be strictly increasing') ValueError: x must be strictly increasing.

Any help or advice would be most welcomed!

Answer 1

Got it! After many hours looking at code I found a link https://github.com/kawache/Python-B-spline-examples that gave me a clue, and I can now produce results similar to those from my original FORTRAN code (which was written using M.G. Cox original code 1, and subsequently modified to Cox & de Boor 2).

Maybe I should write it up as "Spline fitting to data of multiple observations at successive irregular points in time".

Thank for all the help with this.

Here is my code :-

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy import interpolate
import numpy as np

x=[152.0,152,152,152,152,159,159,159,159,159,166,166,166,166,166,174,174,174,174,174,181,181,181,181,181,188,188,188,188,188,194,194,194,194,194,202,202,202,202,202,208,208,208,208,208,215,215,215,215,215,222,222,222,222,222,229,229,229,229,229,236,236,236,236,236,243,243,243,243,243,250,250,250,250,250,258,258,258,258]

y=[-1.31639523,-1.90045889,-1.81769285,-1.25702203,-1.31975784,-0.76206863,-0.74170737,-0.66029284,-0.58124809,-0.49593701,-0.19309943,0.02254396,-0.04614866,0.06709774,0.10436002,0.577175,0.56809403,0.89547559,0.60922195,0.76220672,1.0461253,1.1304339,1.56360338,1.34189828,1.41658105,1.98677786,2.40487089,2.20431052,1.91072699,2.49328809,2.670556,2.85024397,3.24333426,2.44841554,3.14604703,3.39128172,3.78063788,3.21446612,3.07158159,3.79503965,3.40717945,4.02417242,3.70708767,4.00729682,4.25504517,4.28874564,3.9356614,4.30337567,4.02388633,4.65376986,4.33884509,4.68839858,4.10508666,4.26236997,4.53098529,5.03443645,4.07940011,4.3033351,4.43476139,4.80221614,4.49558967,4.5052504,4.40289487,5.15433152,5.1330299,4.30299696,4.47974301,5.34886789,4.60896298,5.35997675,4.40204983,5.50162549,4.3056854,4.87120463,5.36265274,4.33578634,5.06347439,4.46811258,5.30920785]

plt.plot(x, y, 'ro', ms=5)

tck,u = interpolate.splprep([x,y],k=3,s=32)

u=np.linspace(0,1,num=50,endpoint=True)
out = interpolate.splev(u,tck)

plt.plot(x, y, 'ro', out[0], out[1], 'b' )

plt.show()

and the result (followed by the plot of the original spline from Cox 1 and de Boor 2).

1: M. G. Cox, “The numerical evaluation of b-splines”, J. Inst. Maths Applics, 10, p.134-149, 1972.

2: C. de Boor, “On calculating with b-splines”, J. Approximation Theory, 6, p.50-62, 1972.