Wavelet Methods Tutorial Using WM.M

A.I. McLeod, Revised: December 07, 2000 04:59 PM
© A.I. McLeod,  2000; aim@uwo.ca

I provide a tutorial introduction to wavelets based on the notation and ideas in the book Wavelet Methods for Time Series Analysis by Percival & Walden (2000).  This tutorial uses two packages that I have developed and that are still under development.  First there is a package for wavelet methods, WM.M, and secondly my package for univariate time series analysis, UTA.M.  The UTA.M package is only used for empirical spectral analysis of some wavelet coefficients in the tutorial and also for plotting time series.

These tutorials have been converted by Mathematica to HTML format.  The original notebooks are also available.  If you don't have Mathematica you can still read the Mathematica notebooks by downloading MathReader (freeware).

Quantitative Programming Environments  

Wavelet Explorer 

Filtering Concepts 

Derivation of D(4) 

First Level Coefficients     

Second Level Coefficients    

Third Level Coefficients    

Fourth Level Coefficients  

Other Wavelet Filters 

Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT) 

Empirical DWT Spectrum 

Multiresolution Decomposition Plot 

Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transformation (IDWT) 

Multiresolution Resolution Analysis 

MRA of the DWT of the Heart Data 

Nonstationary Property of the DWT Mathematica Notebook

MoDWT: Maximal overlap DWT Mathematica Notebook