What is the difference between the functions PSD and PWELCH?

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1 min readJan 15, 2021

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Both of these functions use Welch’s method to estimate the PSD.

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We highly recommend that you use PWELCH for Welch’s method of estimation rather than PSD. Although PSD was an implementation of Welch’s method, PWELCH was added for the following reasons:

The name of the function PWELCH reflects much better the method used to obtain the spectral estimate. PSD is too generic, in fact there are several different algorithms for psd estimation.

Also, PSD does not scale the data by a factor of Fs (sampling frequency). Thus, PSD was actually more of a power spectrum estimate (yielding units of power or db) whereas PWELCH and our other functions return a power spectral density estimate (yielding units of power/freq or db/freq).

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