From 2cf5862eafb817206f4780d3ddf84c13d00c4ffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Thatcher <137421747+athatcher13@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:40:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update ppg_quality.py

Addressing issue #1043
Change 'templatematch' implementation to use interpolation method 'previous' rather than 'quadratic'. This aligns it with the 'disimilarity' implementation and is a better representation of the beat-by-beat nature of the quality measure.
---
 neurokit2/ppg/ppg_quality.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/neurokit2/ppg/ppg_quality.py b/neurokit2/ppg/ppg_quality.py
index c53a609f94..4ef625337c 100644
--- a/neurokit2/ppg/ppg_quality.py
+++ b/neurokit2/ppg/ppg_quality.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def _ppg_quality_templatematch(ppg_cleaned, ppg_pw_peaks=None, sampling_rate=100
 
     # Interpolate beat-by-beat CCs
     quality = signal_interpolate(
-        ppg_pw_peaks[0:-1], cc, x_new=np.arange(len(ppg_cleaned)), method="quadratic"
+        ppg_pw_peaks[0:-1], cc, x_new=np.arange(len(ppg_cleaned)), method="previous"
     )
 
     return quality
@@ -193,4 +193,4 @@ def _ppg_quality_disimilarity(ppg_cleaned, ppg_pw_peaks=None, sampling_rate=1000
         ppg_pw_peaks[0:-1], dis, x_new=np.arange(len(ppg_cleaned)), method="previous"
     )
 
-    return quality
\ No newline at end of file
+    return quality