Finding local minima and maxima of a graph

[Bryan McCormick]

Peter,

Yes, I have thousands of .csv files to process. I have data that is 
ordered by column containing high and low values.

On 12/4/2010 12:56 PM, Bryan McCormick wrote:
> I have a very large number of graphs to crunch through to find local
> minima and maxima. The data is regularly spaced, which eliminated one
> problem. I know too that the window value used has to be an adjustable
> variable as peak and trough significance may need to be found for a wide
> range of time periods within the data set.
>
> I had thought of using a moving average to find a slope of zero and then
> use an offset function to find the peak and trough in time.
>
> I've used stackoverflow to have a look and apparently the problem is a
> lot less trivial than I thought.
>
> Any suggestions for fitting to a function, using the graphing functions
> in rev, etc would be most welcome.