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# mne.filter.create_filter¶

mne.filter.create_filter(data, sfreq, l_freq, h_freq, filter_length='auto', l_trans_bandwidth='auto', h_trans_bandwidth='auto', method='fir', iir_params=None, phase='zero', fir_window='hamming', fir_design='firwin', verbose=None)[source]

Create a FIR or IIR filter.

l_freq and h_freq are the frequencies below which and above which, respectively, to filter out of the data. Thus the uses are:

• l_freq < h_freq: band-pass filter
• l_freq > h_freq: band-stop filter
• l_freq is not None and h_freq is None: high-pass filter
• l_freq is None and h_freq is not None: low-pass filter
Parameters: data : ndarray, shape (…, n_times) | None The data that will be filtered. This is used for sanity checking only. If None, no sanity checking related to the length of the signal relative to the filter order will be performed. sfreq : float The sample frequency in Hz. l_freq : float | None Low cut-off frequency in Hz. If None the data are only low-passed. h_freq : float | None High cut-off frequency in Hz. If None the data are only high-passed. filter_length : str | int Length of the FIR filter to use (if applicable): ‘auto’ (default): the filter length is chosen based on the size of the transition regions (6.6 times the reciprocal of the shortest transition band for fir_window=’hamming’ and fir_design=”firwin2”, and half that for “firwin”). str: a human-readable time in units of “s” or “ms” (e.g., “10s” or “5500ms”) will be converted to that number of samples if phase="zero", or the shortest power-of-two length at least that duration for phase="zero-double". int: specified length in samples. For fir_design=”firwin”, this should not be used. l_trans_bandwidth : float | str Width of the transition band at the low cut-off frequency in Hz (high pass or cutoff 1 in bandpass). Can be “auto” (default) to use a multiple of l_freq: min(max(l_freq * 0.25, 2), l_freq)  Only used for method='fir'. h_trans_bandwidth : float | str Width of the transition band at the high cut-off frequency in Hz (low pass or cutoff 2 in bandpass). Can be “auto” (default in 0.14) to use a multiple of h_freq: min(max(h_freq * 0.25, 2.), info['sfreq'] / 2. - h_freq)  Only used for method='fir'. method : str ‘fir’ will use overlap-add FIR filtering, ‘iir’ will use IIR forward-backward filtering (via filtfilt). iir_params : dict | None Dictionary of parameters to use for IIR filtering. See mne.filter.construct_iir_filter for details. If iir_params is None and method=”iir”, 4th order Butterworth will be used. phase : str Phase of the filter, only used if method='fir'. By default, a symmetric linear-phase FIR filter is constructed. If phase='zero' (default), the delay of this filter is compensated for. If phase=='zero-double', then this filter is applied twice, once forward, and once backward. If ‘minimum’, then a minimum-phase, causal filter will be used. New in version 0.13. fir_window : str The window to use in FIR design, can be “hamming” (default), “hann”, or “blackman”. New in version 0.13. fir_design : str Can be “firwin” (default) to use scipy.signal.firwin(), or “firwin2” to use scipy.signal.firwin2(). “firwin” uses a time-domain design technique that generally gives improved attenuation using fewer samples than “firwin2”. ..versionadded:: 0.15 verbose : bool, str, int, or None If not None, override default verbose level (see mne.verbose() and Logging documentation for more). filt : array or dict Will be an array of FIR coefficients for method=’fir’, and dict with IIR parameters for method=’iir’.

Notes

The -6 dB point for all filters is in the middle of the transition band.

Band-pass filter

The frequency response is (approximately) given by:

  1-|               ----------
|             /|         | \
|H| |            / |         |  \
|           /  |         |   \
|          /   |         |    \
0-|----------    |         |     --------------
|         |    |         |     |            |
0        Fs1  Fp1       Fp2   Fs2          Nyq


Where:

• Fs1 = Fp1 - l_trans_bandwidth in Hz
• Fs2 = Fp2 + h_trans_bandwidth in Hz

Band-stop filter

The frequency response is (approximately) given by:

  1-|---------                   ----------
|         \                 /
|H| |          \               /
|           \             /
|            \           /
0-|             -----------
|        |    |         |    |        |
0       Fp1  Fs1       Fs2  Fp2      Nyq


Where Fs1 = Fp1 + l_trans_bandwidth and Fs2 = Fp2 - h_trans_bandwidth.

Multiple stop bands can be specified using arrays.

Low-pass filter

The frequency response is (approximately) given by:

  1-|------------------------
|                        \
|H| |                         \
|                          \
|                           \
0-|                            ----------------
|                       |    |              |
0                      Fp  Fstop           Nyq


Where Fstop = Fp + trans_bandwidth.

High-pass filter

The frequency response is (approximately) given by:

  1-|             -----------------------
|            /
|H| |           /
|          /
|         /
0-|---------
|        |    |                     |
0      Fstop  Fp                   Nyq


Where Fstop = Fp - trans_bandwidth.

New in version 0.14.