Gilsinn, D.
and Lavery, J.
(2002),
Shape-Preserving, Multi-Scale Fitting of Bivariate Data by Cubic L<sub>1</sub> Smoothing Splines, Journal of Approximation Theory, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=150830
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Shape-Preserving, Multi-Scale Fitting of Bivariate Data by Cubic L1 Smoothing Splines
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, J E. Lavery
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Bivariate cubic L1 smoothing splines are introduced. The coefficients of a cubic L1 smoothing spline are calculated by minimizing the weighted sum of the L1 norms ofsecond derivatives of the spline and the l1 norm of the residuals of the data-fitting equations. Cubic L1 smoothing splines are compared with conventional cubic smoothingsplines based on the L2 and l2 norms. Computational results for fitting a challengingdata set consisting of discontinuously connected flat and quadratic areas by C1-smooth Sibson-element splines on a tensor-product grid are presented. In these computational results, the cubic L1 smoothing splines preserve the shape of the data while cubic L2 smoothing splines do not.Citation
Journal of Approximation Theory
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bivariate approximation, least absolute regression, least squares regression, sibson elements, smoothing splines, tensor-product grids
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