Least Squares Piecewise Cubic Curve Fitting

The matrices involved in a linear least squares
formulation are determined for the problem 
of fitting piecewise cubic functions, those possessing
a continuous derivative, to arrays of planar data.

CACM June, 1973

Ferguson, J.
Staley, P. A.

curve fitting, data reduction, function
approximation, approximation splines

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CA730612 JB January 23, 1978  1:47 PM

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