This example illustrates some properties of splines. Splines are curves, which are usually required to be continuous and smooth. Splines are usually defined as piecewise polynomials of degree n with ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 36, No. 2/3, Special Issue: Practical Bayesian Statistics (1987), pp. 289-296 (8 pages) This paper presents preliminary ...