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cubic spline (was: Re: Qubic splines - algorithm needed !!!)

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From: Jonathan Thornburg
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:43
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In the base article of this thread, whose reference I have alas
misplaced, a request is made for code to fit a cubic spline through
a data set of non-equidistant points.

One other point...  If you need a higher degree of smoothness than
the usual cubic spline, you might consider *Hermite* splines.  The
(excellent, superb, ++good, highly recommended) book

        David Kahaner, Cleve Moler, Stephen Nash
        "Numerical Methods and Software"
        Prentice-Hall   1989   0-13-627258-4

discusses Hermite splines, and suggests using the PCHIP package to
manipulate them.  The book comes with Fortran code on floppy disk;
I suspect PCHIP itself can be had separately from netlib et al, but
I'm not sure just how or where.

- Jonathan Thornburg
  <jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu> or <jonathan@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu>
  University of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity
  and (for a few more months) U of British Columbia / {Astronomy,Physics}
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From: jonathan@chpc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Thornburg)
Subject: cubic spline (was: Re: Qubic splines - algorithm needed !!!)
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Summary: the PCHIP package provides fancier *Hermite* splines
Keywords: spline cubic hermite PCHIP Kahaner Moler Nash
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