[R] solution of convolution equation

[Huntsinger, Reid]

You need to pad both fx and fz with zeros to at least a length of length(fx)
+ length(fz) - 1, because you're really computing a circular convolution.
The same holds in higher dimensions (for each dimension).

Reid Huntsinger

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Anna Oganyan
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:23 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] solution of convolution equation


Hello,
May be somebody can help me...
I am trying to find a solution of a convolution equation using fft (and 
unfortunately I do not have a good background for this).
So I am just trying to figure out how it can be implemented in R. I have 
two multidimensional independent variables X and Z
and I know their densities fx and fz, which are multidimensional arrays. 
So I have to find the density of Y, such that X+Y=Z.
So, first I tried on a simple example, where the variables are 
one-dimensional, say X is N(0,1) and Z is N(7,3).
So I want to find the density of Y (which should be N(7, sqrt(8)).
I did:
x <- seq(-6, 20, length=500)
fx <- dnorm(x)
z <- seq(-6, 20, length=500)
fz <- dnorm(z, mean=7, sd=3)
ffty <- fft(fz)/fft(fx)
fy <- fft(ffty, inverse=T)/length(ffty)
plot(Re(fy))

But the plot is far from being normal. May be the problem is with the 
lengths of fx and fz? should they be of different lengths and fx padded 
with zeros? May be somebody could point out that...? Thanks!
Anna

______________________________________________
R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide!
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html