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# cheby2

scipy.signal.cheby2(N, rs, Wn, btype='low', analog=False, output='ba', fs=None)

  Chebyshev type II digital and analog filter design.

  Design an Nth-order digital or analog Chebyshev type II filter and return the filter coefficients.

  Parameters:
    N int

      The order of the filter.

    rs float

      The minimum attenuation required in the stop band. Specified in decibels, as a positive number.

    Wn array_like

      A scalar or length-2 sequence giving the critical frequencies. For Type II filters, this is the point in the transition band at which the gain first reaches -rs.

      For digital filters, Wn are in the same units as fs. By default, fs is 2 half-cycles/sample, so these are normalized from 0 to 1, where 1 is the Nyquist frequency. (Wn is thus in half-cycles / sample.)

      For analog filters, Wn is an angular frequency (e.g., rad/s).

    btype{‘lowpass’, ‘highpass’, ‘bandpass’, ‘bandstop’}, optional

      The type of filter. Default is ‘lowpass’.

    analog bool, optional

      When True, return an analog filter, otherwise a digital filter is returned.

    output{‘ba’, ‘zpk’, ‘sos’}, optional

      Type of output: numerator/denominator (‘ba’), pole-zero (‘zpk’), or second-order sections (‘sos’). Default is ‘ba’ for backwards compatibility, but ‘sos’ should be used for general-purpose filtering.

    fs float, optional

      The sampling frequency of the digital system.

      Added in version 1.2.0.

  Returns:
    b, a ndarray, ndarray

      Numerator (b) and denominator (a) polynomials of the IIR filter. Only returned if `output='ba'`.

    z, p, k ndarray, ndarray, float

      Zeros, poles, and system gain of the IIR filter transfer function. Only returned if `output='zpk'`.

    sos ndarray

      Second-order sections representation of the IIR filter. Only returned if `output='sos'`.

  See also

  `cheb2ord`, `cheb2ap`

  Notes

  The Chebyshev type II filter maximizes the rate of cutoff between the frequency response’s passband and stopband, at the expense of ripple in the stopband and increased ringing in the step response.

  Type II filters do not roll off as fast as Type I (`cheby1`).

  The `'sos'` output parameter was added in 0.16.0.

  The current behavior is for `ndarray` outputs to have 64 bit precision (`float64` or `complex128`) regardless of the dtype of Wn but outputs may respect the dtype of Wn in a future version.

  Array API Standard Support

  `cheby2` has experimental support for Python Array API Standard compatible backends in addition to NumPy. Please consider testing these features by setting an environment variable `SCIPY_ARRAY_API=1` and providing CuPy, PyTorch, JAX, or Dask arrays as array arguments. The following combinations of backend and device (or other capability) are supported.

  Library | CPU | GPU
  --- | --- | ---
  NumPy | ✅ | n/a
  CuPy | n/a | ✅
  PyTorch | ✅ | ⛔
  JAX | ⚠️ no JIT | ⛔
  Dask | ⚠️ computes graph | n/a

  > See Support for the array API standard for more information.

  Examples

  Design an analog filter and plot its frequency response, showing the critical points:

      >>> from scipy import signal
      >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
      >>> import numpy as np

      >>> b, a = signal.cheby2(4, 40, 100, 'low', analog=True)
      >>> w, h = signal.freqs(b, a)
      >>> plt.semilogx(w, 20 * np.log10(abs(h)))
      >>> plt.title('Chebyshev Type II frequency response (rs=40)')
      >>> plt.xlabel('Frequency [rad/s]')
      >>> plt.ylabel('Amplitude [dB]')
      >>> plt.margins(0, 0.1)
      >>> plt.grid(which='both', axis='both')
      >>> plt.axvline(100, color='green') # cutoff frequency
      >>> plt.axhline(-40, color='green') # rs
      >>> plt.show()

  Generate a signal made up of 10 Hz and 20 Hz, sampled at 1 kHz

      >>> t = np.linspace(0, 1, 1000, False)  # 1 second
      >>> sig = np.sin(2*np.pi*10*t) + np.sin(2*np.pi*20*t)
      >>> fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(2, 1, sharex=True)
      >>> ax1.plot(t, sig)
      >>> ax1.set_title('10 Hz and 20 Hz sinusoids')
      >>> ax1.axis([0, 1, -2, 2])

  Design a digital high-pass filter at 17 Hz to remove the 10 Hz tone, and apply it to the signal. (It’s recommended to use second-order sections format when filtering, to avoid numerical error with transfer function (`ba`) format):

      >>> sos = signal.cheby2(12, 20, 17, 'hp', fs=1000, output='sos')
      >>> filtered = signal.sosfilt(sos, sig)
      >>> ax2.plot(t, filtered)
      >>> ax2.set_title('After 17 Hz high-pass filter')
      >>> ax2.axis([0, 1, -2, 2])
      >>> ax2.set_xlabel('Time [s]')
      >>> plt.show()