Fitting a 3D array of data to a 1D function with numpy or scipy

Question

4I am currently trying to fit a lot of data to a sine function. In the case where I only have one set of data (1D array), scipy.optimize.curve_fit() works fine.

Answer 1

Using np.apply_along_axis() solves your problem. Just do this:

func1d = lambda y, *args: optimize.curve_fit(f, xdata=x, ydata=y, *args)[0] #<-- [0] to get only popt
param = np.apply_along_axis( func1d, axis=2, arr=data )

See the example below:

from scipy import optimize
import numpy as np
def f(x,p1,p2,p3,p4):
    return p1 + p2*np.sin(2*np.pi*p3*x + p4)
sx = 50  # size x
sy = 200 # size y
sz = 100 # size z
# creating the reference parameters
tmp = np.empty((4,sy,sz))
tmp[0,:,:] = (1.2-0.8) * np.random.random_sample((sy,sz)) + 0.8
tmp[1,:,:] = (1.2-0.8) * np.random.random_sample((sy,sz)) + 0.8
tmp[2,:,:] = np.ones((sy,sz))
tmp[3,:,:] = np.ones((sy,sz))*np.pi/4
param_ref = np.empty((4,sy,sz,sx))     # param_ref in this shape will allow an
for i in range(sx):                    # one-shot evaluation of f() to create 
    param_ref[:,:,:,i] = tmp           # the data sample
# creating the data sample
x = np.linspace(0,2*np.pi)
factor = (1.1-0.9)*np.random.random_sample((sy,sz,sx))+0.9
data = f(x, *param_ref) * factor       # the one-shot evalution is here
# finding the adjusted parameters
func1d = lambda y, *args: optimize.curve_fit(f, xdata=x, ydata=y, *args)[0] #<-- [0] to get only popt
param = np.apply_along_axis( func1d, axis=2, arr=data )