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# scipy.fftpack.dst

`scipy.fftpack.``dst`(x, type=2, n=None, axis=-1, norm=None, overwrite_x=False)

  Return the Discrete Sine Transform of arbitrary type sequence x.

  Parameters: | x : array_like The input array. type : {1, 2, 3}, optional Type of the DST (see Notes). Default type is 2. n : int, optional Length of the transform. If `n < x.shape[axis]`, x is truncated. If `n > x.shape[axis]`, x is zero-padded. The default results in `n = x.shape[axis]`. axis : int, optional Axis along which the dst is computed; the default is over the last axis (i.e., `axis=-1`). norm : {None, ‘ortho’}, optional Normalization mode (see Notes). Default is None. overwrite_x : bool, optional If True, the contents of x can be destroyed; the default is False.
  Returns: | dst : ndarray of reals The transformed input array.

  See also

  `idst`
    Inverse DST

  Notes

  For a single dimension array `x`.

  There are theoretically 8 types of the DST for different combinations of even/odd boundary conditions and boundary off sets [R44], only the first 3 types are implemented in scipy.

  Type I

  There are several definitions of the DST-I; we use the following for `norm=None`. DST-I assumes the input is odd around n=-1 and n=N.

                 N-1
      y[k] = 2 * sum x[n]*sin(pi*(k+1)*(n+1)/(N+1))
                 n=0

  Only None is supported as normalization mode for DCT-I. Note also that the DCT-I is only supported for input size > 1 The (unnormalized) DCT-I is its own inverse, up to a factor 2(N+1).

  Type II

  There are several definitions of the DST-II; we use the following for `norm=None`. DST-II assumes the input is odd around n=-1/2 and n=N-1/2; the output is odd around k=-1 and even around k=N-1

                N-1
      y[k] = 2* sum x[n]*sin(pi*(k+1)*(n+0.5)/N), 0 <= k < N.
                n=0

  if `norm='ortho'`, `y[k]` is multiplied by a scaling factor f

      f = sqrt(1/(4*N)) if k == 0
      f = sqrt(1/(2*N)) otherwise.

  Type III

  There are several definitions of the DST-III, we use the following (for `norm=None`). DST-III assumes the input is odd around n=-1 and even around n=N-1

                                 N-2
      y[k] = x[N-1]*(-1)**k + 2* sum x[n]*sin(pi*(k+0.5)*(n+1)/N), 0 <= k < N.
                                 n=0

  The (unnormalized) DCT-III is the inverse of the (unnormalized) DCT-II, up to a factor 2N. The orthonormalized DST-III is exactly the inverse of the orthonormalized DST-II.

  New in version 0.11.0.

  References

  [R44] | (1, 2) Wikipedia, “Discrete sine transform”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_sine_transform