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Mathematical statistics --- Least squares --- Curve fitting. --- Least squares.

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Jason Gibson explains how to create a variety of different charts to use in statistical analysis. He discusses the best cases for using each chart, and he completes some example charts for practice.

Statistics --- Diagrams, Statistical --- Statistical diagrams --- Curve fitting --- Graphic methods.

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Numerical calculations. --- Mathematical statistics. --- Error analysis (Mathematics). --- Curve fitting.

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The book describes the use of smoothing techniques in statistics, including both density estimation and nonparametric regression. Considerable advances in research in this area have been made in recent years. The aim of this text is to describe a variety of ways in which these methods can be applied to practical problems in statistics. The role of smoothing techniques in exploring data graphically is emphasised, but the use of nonparametric curves in drawing conclusions from data, as an extension of more standard parametric models, is also a major focus of the book. Examples are drawn from a wide range of applications. The book is intended for those who seek an introduction to the area, with an emphasis on applications rather than on detailed theory. It is therefore expected that the book will benefit those attending courses at an advanced undergraduate, or postgraduate, level, as well as researchers, both from statistics and from other disciplines, who wish to learn about and apply these techniques in practical data analysis. The text makes extensive reference to S-Plus, as a computing environment in which examples can be explored.; S-Plus functions and example scripts are provided to implement many of the techniques described. These parts are, however, clearly separate from the main body of text, and can therefore easily be skipped by readers not interested in S-Plus.

Smoothing (Statistics) --- Mathematics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Mathematical Statistics --- Curve fitting --- Graduation (Statistics) --- Roundoff errors --- Statistics

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Splines, both interpolatory and smoothing, have a long and rich history that has largely been application driven. This book unifies these constructions in a comprehensive and accessible way, drawing from the latest methods and applications to show how they arise naturally in the theory of linear control systems. Magnus Egerstedt and Clyde Martin are leading innovators in the use of control theoretic splines to bring together many diverse applications within a common framework. In this book, they begin with a series of problems ranging from path planning to statistics to approximation. Using the tools of optimization over vector spaces, Egerstedt and Martin demonstrate how all of these problems are part of the same general mathematical framework, and how they are all, to a certain degree, a consequence of the optimization problem of finding the shortest distance from a point to an affine subspace in a Hilbert space. They cover periodic splines, monotone splines, and splines with inequality constraints, and explain how any finite number of linear constraints can be added. This book reveals how the many natural connections between control theory, numerical analysis, and statistics can be used to generate powerful mathematical and analytical tools. This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals in control theory, robotics, engineering, computer graphics, econometrics, and any area that requires the construction of curves based on sets of raw data.

Interpolation. --- Smoothing (Numerical analysis) --- Smoothing (Statistics) --- Curve fitting. --- Splines. --- Spline theory. --- Spline functions --- Approximation theory --- Interpolation --- Joints (Engineering) --- Mechanical movements --- Harmonic drives --- Fitting, Curve --- Numerical analysis --- Least squares --- Statistics --- Curve fitting --- Graduation (Statistics) --- Roundoff errors --- Graphic methods