Study of cubic splines and fourier series as interpolation techniques for filling in short periods of missing building energy use and weather data

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 226-230

  Baltazar, Juan Carlos ^a   Claridge, David E ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUBIC SPLINES; FOURIER SERIES; MEAN BIAS ERROR;

DATA ACQUISITION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SPLINES;

EID: 33646856437     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2189872     Document Type: Article

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