SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Apr., 1985), pp. 386-400 (15 pages) In a 1980 paper [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 17 (1980), pp. 238-246] the authors developed a univariate piecewise ...

An Illustration of Splines and Knots A Cubic Spline Regression Function The Third Derivative is Discontinuous at X=5, 10, 15 The TRANSREG Procedure TRANSREG MORALS Algorithm Iteration History for ...

In the study of production scheduling to meet random fluctuations in supply and demand, a probabilistic measure of effectiveness can be used. This measure is a piecewise quadratic positive definite ...