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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#beyond-this-tutorial">1.4.5. Beyond this tutorial</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#tutorials">1.4.5.1. Tutorials</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#matplotlib-documentation">1.4.5.2. Matplotlib documentation</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#line-properties">1.4.6.1. Line properties</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#full-code-examples">1.4.7. Full code examples</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#code-samples-for-matplotlib">1.4.7.1. Code samples for Matplotlib</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#code-for-the-chapter-s-exercises">1.4.7.2. Code for the chapter’s exercises</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#example-demoing-choices-for-an-option">1.4.7.3. Example demoing choices for an option</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/matplotlib/index.html#code-generating-the-summary-figures-with-a-title">1.4.7.4. Code generating the summary figures with a title</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html">1.5. Scipy : high-level scientific computing</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#file-input-output-scipy-io">1.5.1. File input/output: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.io</span></code></a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#special-functions-scipy-special">1.5.2. Special functions: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.special</span></code></a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#linear-algebra-operations-scipy-linalg">1.5.3. Linear algebra operations: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.linalg</span></code></a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#interpolation-scipy-interpolate">1.5.4. Interpolation: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.interpolate</span></code></a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#optimization-and-fit-scipy-optimize">1.5.5. Optimization and fit: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.optimize</span></code></a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#curve-fitting">1.5.5.1. Curve fitting</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#statistics-and-random-numbers-scipy-stats">1.5.6. Statistics and random numbers: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.stats</span></code></a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#distributions-histogram-and-probability-density-function">1.5.6.1. Distributions: histogram and probability density function</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#mean-median-and-percentiles">1.5.6.2. Mean, median and percentiles</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#statistical-tests">1.5.6.3. Statistical tests</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#numerical-integration-scipy-integrate">1.5.7. Numerical integration: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.integrate</span></code></a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#function-integrals">1.5.7.1. Function integrals</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#fast-fourier-transforms-scipy-fftpack">1.5.8. Fast Fourier transforms: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.fftpack</span></code></a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#signal-processing-scipy-signal">1.5.9. Signal processing: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.signal</span></code></a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#image-manipulation-scipy-ndimage">1.5.10. Image manipulation: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy.ndimage</span></code></a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#geometrical-transformations-on-images">1.5.10.1. Geometrical transformations on images</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#summary-exercises-on-scientific-computing">1.5.11. Summary exercises on scientific computing</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/stats-interpolate.html">1.5.11.1. Maximum wind speed prediction at the Sprogø station</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/stats-interpolate.html#statistical-approach">Statistical approach</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/stats-interpolate.html#computing-the-cumulative-probabilities">Computing the cumulative probabilities</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/stats-interpolate.html#prediction-with-univariatespline">Prediction with UnivariateSpline</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/stats-interpolate.html#exercise-with-the-gumbell-distribution">Exercise with the Gumbell distribution</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/optimize-fit.html">1.5.11.2. Non linear least squares curve fitting: application to point extraction in topographical lidar data</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/optimize-fit.html#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/optimize-fit.html#loading-and-visualization">Loading and visualization</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/optimize-fit.html#fitting-a-waveform-with-a-simple-gaussian-model">Fitting a waveform with a simple Gaussian model</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/image-processing.html">1.5.11.3. Image processing application: counting bubbles and unmolten grains</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/summary-exercises/answers_image_processing.html">1.5.11.4. Example of solution for the image processing exercise: unmolten grains in glass</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#full-code-examples-for-the-scipy-chapter">1.5.12. Full code examples for the scipy chapter</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/scipy.html#solutions-of-the-exercises-for-scipy">1.5.12.19. Solutions of the exercises for scipy</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="intro/help/help.html">1.6. Getting help and finding documentation</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/advanced_python/index.html">2.1. Advanced Python Constructs</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/debugging/index.html#invoking-the-debugger">2.3.3.1. Invoking the debugger</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/debugging/index.html#postmortem">Postmortem</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/debugging/index.html#step-by-step-execution">Step-by-step execution</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/optimizing/index.html">2.4. Optimizing code</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/optimizing/index.html#optimization-workflow">2.4.1. Optimization workflow</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/optimizing/index.html#profiling-python-code">2.4.2. Profiling Python code</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/optimizing/index.html#profiler">2.4.2.2. Profiler</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/optimizing/index.html#making-code-go-faster">2.4.3. Making code go faster</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/optimizing/index.html#algorithmic-optimization">2.4.3.1. Algorithmic optimization</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/optimizing/index.html#example-of-the-svd">Example of the SVD</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/index.html">2.5. Sparse Matrices in SciPy</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/introduction.html">2.5.1. Introduction</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/introduction.html#why-sparse-matrices">2.5.1.1. Why Sparse Matrices?</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/introduction.html#sparse-matrices-vs-sparse-matrix-storage-schemes">2.5.1.2. Sparse Matrices vs. Sparse Matrix Storage Schemes</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/introduction.html#typical-applications">2.5.1.3. Typical Applications</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/introduction.html#prerequisites">2.5.1.4. Prerequisites</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/introduction.html#sparsity-structure-visualization">2.5.1.5. Sparsity Structure Visualization</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/storage_schemes.html">2.5.2. Storage Schemes</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/storage_schemes.html#common-methods">2.5.2.1. Common Methods</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/storage_schemes.html#sparse-matrix-classes">2.5.2.2. Sparse Matrix Classes</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/dia_matrix.html">Diagonal Format (DIA)</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l6"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/dia_matrix.html#examples">Examples</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/lil_matrix.html">List of Lists Format (LIL)</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/dok_matrix.html">Dictionary of Keys Format (DOK)</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/coo_matrix.html">Coordinate Format (COO)</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l6"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/coo_matrix.html#examples">Examples</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/csr_matrix.html">Compressed Sparse Row Format (CSR)</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/csc_matrix.html">Compressed Sparse Column Format (CSC)</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/bsr_matrix.html">Block Compressed Row Format (BSR)</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/storage_schemes.html#summary">2.5.2.3. Summary</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html">2.5.3. Linear System Solvers</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html#sparse-direct-solvers">2.5.3.1. Sparse Direct Solvers</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html#examples">Examples</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html#iterative-solvers">2.5.3.2. Iterative Solvers</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html#common-parameters">Common Parameters</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html#linearoperator-class">LinearOperator Class</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html#a-few-notes-on-preconditioning">A Few Notes on Preconditioning</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html#eigenvalue-problem-solvers">2.5.3.3. Eigenvalue Problem Solvers</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/solvers.html#the-eigen-module">The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">eigen</span></code> module</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/scipy_sparse/other_packages.html">2.5.4. Other Interesting Packages</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html">2.6. Image manipulation and processing using Numpy and Scipy</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#opening-and-writing-to-image-files">2.6.1. Opening and writing to image files</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#basic-manipulations">2.6.3. Basic manipulations</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#statistical-information">2.6.3.1. Statistical information</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#geometrical-transformations">2.6.3.2. Geometrical transformations</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#image-filtering">2.6.4. Image filtering</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#blurring-smoothing">2.6.4.1. Blurring/smoothing</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#sharpening">2.6.4.2. Sharpening</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#denoising">2.6.4.3. Denoising</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#mathematical-morphology">2.6.4.4. Mathematical morphology</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#feature-extraction">2.6.5. Feature extraction</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#edge-detection">2.6.5.1. Edge detection</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#measuring-objects-properties-ndimage-measurements">2.6.6. Measuring objects properties: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ndimage.measurements</span></code></a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#full-code-examples">2.6.7. Full code examples</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/image_processing/index.html#examples-for-the-image-processing-chapter">2.6.8. Examples for the image processing chapter</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html">2.7. Mathematical optimization: finding minima of functions</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#knowing-your-problem">2.7.1. Knowing your problem</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#convex-versus-non-convex-optimization">2.7.1.1. Convex versus non-convex optimization</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#smooth-and-non-smooth-problems">2.7.1.2. Smooth and non-smooth problems</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#noisy-versus-exact-cost-functions">2.7.1.3. Noisy versus exact cost functions</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#constraints">2.7.1.4. Constraints</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#a-review-of-the-different-optimizers">2.7.2. A review of the different optimizers</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#getting-started-1d-optimization">2.7.2.1. Getting started: 1D optimization</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l4"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#gradient-based-methods">2.7.2.2. Gradient based methods</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#some-intuitions-about-gradient-descent">Some intuitions about gradient descent</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#conjugate-gradient-descent">Conjugate gradient descent</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#newton-methods-using-the-hessian-2nd-differential">Newton methods: using the Hessian (2nd differential)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l5"><a class="reference internal" href="advanced/mathematical_optimization/index.html#quasi-newton-methods-approximating-the-hessian-on-the-fly">Quasi-Newton methods: approximating the Hessian on the fly</a></li>
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