nguyen_k
This week I mainly continued working with the code. I simply added a function to count the maxima so it would save me from counting them by hand. To do so, I set a variable 'count' with initial value of 0 and each time the program detects a local maximum that satisfies the conditions, 'count' increases by 1. Here is what it looks like:
I also tried to run the program with different set of data. I picked the column F7 and extracted 128 bits from it. The result was pretty shocking: there were only 3 maxima. Then I decided to enter the data on Google Sheet and graph it:
According to the graph, there are not many significant peaks. The difference between the maxima and their adjacent values does not seem so sharp either, and I guess not up to 10 as I set in the conditions. This poses another question for me: What is a good approximation for the threshold? I think my next step would be analyze a complete set of data and calculate it using mathematical and statistical methods.
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