best way to detect sinusoidal pattern

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joh
joh on 25 Feb 2014
Edited: John D'Errico on 25 Feb 2014
What is the best way to filter patterns that looks like a sine wave e.g the 1st one is selected and the last one is filtered out
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John D'Errico
John D'Errico on 25 Feb 2014
Edited: John D'Errico on 25 Feb 2014
Neither of these is truly sinusoidal. At best, you might say the first has an oscillatory behavior. Note that the first one has a strong semi-linear trend in it too. But sinusoidal? Not so. And if it is not actually sinusoidal, your question becomes a bit moot, as now one can only ask about the amplitude of semi-periodic behavior.
So if you wanted that, then you might consider an FFT. See what it can tell you about those patterns. For example, if you saw a strong amplitude at some frequency, what might it tell you?
Or perhaps the wavelet toolbox might be even more appropriate for your purposes.

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