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Integrating a B-Spline basis function with respect to the standard normal PDF
I am looking for ways to evaluate exactly (i.e. analytically or semi-analytically) integrals of the type:
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\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}B_{i}^k(u)e^{-\frac{(u-\mu)^2}{2\sigma^2}}du,
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where $B_i^k$ is a ...
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Best way to introduce B-splines?
I have the option of mentoring pure math undergrads in a topic lying within Approximation Theory and I really want to do $B$-splines. Mostly because I have recently found applications of them in my ...
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Interpolation nodes for linear spline (piecewise-linear) interpolation of $x \ln x$
I need to approximate $x \ln x$ on $[0,1]$ as a piecewise-linear function. If $P(x)$ is a piecewise-linear approximation, I want to minimize
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\max_{0 \le x \le 1} |P(x) - x \ln x| \rightarrow \min_P....
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Variational proof for minimum curvature of cubic splines
Background: Given an increasing set of points $(x_i)_{i=0}^n \subset \mathbb [a,b]$, a cubic spline $S(x)\in C^2([a,b])$ is a piecewise cubic polynomial on each subinterval $(x_i, x_{i+1})$.
Given a ...
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Can we improve the error bounds for spline interpolation if the interpolated function is smooth?
Let me first state the original problem I want to solve:
Given a closed curve $C:[a,b]\to\mathbb R^2$ that is smooth ($C^\infty$), a partition in the parameter space $a=t_0<t_1<\cdots<t_n=b$,...
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The $L_\infty$ norm of the derivative of the $L_2$ spline projector
A. Shadrin (Acta Mathematica, 2001) shows that the $L_\infty$ norm of the $L_2$ projector $P_\Delta$ onto the spline space $S_k(\Delta$) is bounded independently of the knot-sequence. I.e. for a ...
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Hardness results for approximating Hölder continuous functions
Let $f \in \mathrm{Lip}^{L,\alpha}[a,b]$, and let $f_{h} \in C^{L}$ be a spline which interpolates $f$ at $a + ih$. Then standard theorems (Daubechies & Lagarias, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 22 (1991) ...
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Marsden's Identity and B-splines
Marsden's Identity states that for every $\tau$ in $\mathbb{R }$:
$$(\cdot -\tau)^{k-1}=\sum_j\Psi_{j,k}(\tau)B_{j,k,t} \, ,$$
with $\Psi_{j,k}=(t_j-\tau)\times...\times(t_{j+k-1}-\tau)$.
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Maximum of a B-spline
Given $p+2$ nondecreasing (and not all identical) knots $t_0, \ldots, t_{p+1}$ on the real line, consider the normalized B-spline of degree $p$ defined over these knots.
We know that the B-spline is ...
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Optimal $L^2$ bounds of cubic spline interpolation
Let $s(x)$ be the natural cubic spline interpolant of a function $f\in C^4$. There are known bounds on the $L^{\infty}$ error, $\|f^{(r)}(x) - s^{(r)} (x) \|_{\infty} $ for $r=0,1,2,3$. See Hall & ...
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Cubic interpolating spline – number of extremum points
Question: Given $f\in C^2 [a,b]$, and $s$ its "natural cubic spline" interpolant on some grid/knots $a= t_0 < t_1<t_2 < \ldots < t_n = b$, is there a bound on the number of ...
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Error bounds for spline interpolation. Hall and Meyer's conjecture
Hall & Meyer, 1976, J. Approx. Theory, show for $f \in C^4[a,b]$ and a mesh $a = x_1, \ldots x_n = b$ with $h = \max x_{j+1} - x_j$, for $\pi f$ a cubic spline interpolant over the mesh for some ...
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Approximating derivatives between gridpoints
Suppose we have a grid (possibly irregular) of $N$ function/value pairs, $(x_i, f_i)$, $i=1...N$. The function is differentiable everywhere at least twice (perhaps more).
What would be a good way to ...
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Cubic splines convergence?
I am looking for a basic, classical, result on approximating a smooth function using cubic and linear splines. Is there a reference on the convergence, in some sense, of the splines to the function of ...
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Norms of B-spline coefficients
In Shumaker's book (Spline Functions: Basic Theory), we know that the $l^\infty$-norm of B-spline coefficients is bounded above and below by the $L^\infty$-norm of the spline itself. Are there similar ...
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Estimating overshoot in spline interpolation
Say I have a spline space $\mathcal S$ of dimension $n$ with a set of unisolvent points $(\xi_i)_{i=1}^n$, i.e., points at which I can unambiguously interpolate within the spline space. So, given ...
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Splines with bounded first derivative?
I have a set of points $(x_i,y_i)\in{\mathbb R}_+\times{\mathbb R}$, $i=1,...,n$, ($x_i$ are the independent variables and $y_i$ are the dependent variables or responses) that I want to fit using ...
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Smoothness Conditions for Planar "Mock-parametric" Spline Interpolation
By "mock-parametric" interpolating curves I understand a class of curves that connect a discrete sequence of points with a predefined degree of smoothness and, that correspond to a non-...
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Interpolation splines of bounded curvature
Given $n$ points $p_i=(x_i,y_i)$ on the [Euclidean] plane, and a positive real number $\rho$. Can we have a polynomial spline (e.g., natural cubic spline) passing through all these points, such that: (...
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Global approximation via convex combination of local approximations
I recently faced the problem of efficiently approximating a very large set of data points and, neither having a model of the empiric function, nor of the error distribution, my method of choice would ...
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Cubic spline smoothing question
I came across this link when searching for an algorithm for spline smoothing. Though I understand basically what I have to do, I need further clarifications on the formula chosen for curvature ...
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