Signs of divided differences yield least squares data fitting with constrained monotonicity or convexity

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 179-211

  Demetriou, I C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Convexity; Divided differences signs; Least squares fit; Monotonicity; Sensitivity; Turning inflection points

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM ERRORS;

CONVEXITY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037106176     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(02)00353-9     Document Type: Article

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