On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Roland Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spencer Graves wrote: >> >> I found the first chapter of Paul Dierckx (1993) Curve and Surface Fitting >> with Splines (Oxford U. Pr.). Beyond that, I've learned a lot from the >> 'fda' package and the two companion volumes by Ramsay and Silverman (2006) >> Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed. and (2002) Applied Functional Data >> Analysis (both Springer). > > If I may add my 2 cents: > Section 2 ("B-Splines in a Nutshell") in the article listed below, is in my > opinion, a good and compact outline of B-Splines. > > * Flexible Smoothing with $B$-splines and Penalties > * Paul H. C. Eilers, Brian D. Marx > * Statistical Science, Vol. 11, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 89-102
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