Re: Comments on pwelch.m

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Joe Koski wrote:
>

> Agreed, Dmitri, but the term "Hanning window" has been part of the digital
> signal analysis jargon for many years. The ancient text books on my shelf
> (Oppenheim and Schafer, and Stearns) use the terms "Hanning" and "Hamming".

I believe the term "Hanning" was made by Tukey as a kind of joke or word play.
The book by Blackman and Tukey may have this explanation -- I do not have
it anymore, cannot check. Since many people do not check original works, it
got propagated to other books and papers. The popularity of Oppenheim &
Schafer book  exacerbated the problem.
I have seen "Hann", "Von Hann", and "Hanning" used. "Numerical recipes" uses
"Hann" and I am pretty sure I can find a couple DSP books (besides the Humming's
 one) which use "Hann" as well.
I just think we should use the correct name especially, as Paul K. just pointed
out, the compatibility with M is not an issue anymore. I guess we can keep 
hanning.m
(that just calls hann.m) for backward compatibility.

BTW, I do not have strong feelings one way or another, this is all FYI.

--
Sincerely,

Dmitri.



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