Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 36, No. 2/3, Special Issue: Practical Bayesian Statistics (1987), pp. 289-296 (8 pages) This paper presents preliminary ...

The presence of satellite cities within large metropolitan areas cannot be captured by an exponential function. Cubic spline functions seem more appropriate to depict the polycentric pattern of modern ...

This example illustrates some properties of splines. Splines are curves, which are usually required to be continuous and smooth. Splines are usually defined as piecewise polynomials of degree n with ...

Ball splines are sometimes misunderstood in the intricate landscape of high-precision engineering. For one, they can be mischaracterized as fragile, or ill-suited for heavy loads. But these innovative ...