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Cubic
Splines Book Description:
Natural
Cubic Splines are used for creating a model that can fill
in the holes between data, in effect, approximating a trend.
They are therefore useful for making observations and inferences
about a pattern existing in the data.
Cubic
splines have three basic properties.
They
pass through all given data points with a unique one between
each set of points.
They
are smooth, meaning that at the points where they merge
their first and second derivatives are equal.
And
finally, since this book deals with natural splines, the
second derivative at the two endpoints is always zero.
This
project was developed as a requirement for Numerical Methods
course during fall 2001 (Instructor Dr. Ravinder Kumar).
This interactive module provides an effective tool for interpolating
a data set using the method of cubic splines.
Natural
Cubic Splines are used for creating a model that can fill
in the holes between data, in effect, approximating a trend.
They are therefore useful for making observations and inferences
about a pattern existing in the data.