ABSTRACT

In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest and activity in the general area of nonparametric smoothing in statistics. This monograph concentrates on the roughness penalty method and shows how this technique provides a unifying approach to a wide range of smoothing problems. The method allows parametric assumptions to be realized in re

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

Interpolating and smoothing splines

chapter 3|34 pages

One-dimensional case: further topics

chapter 4|26 pages

Partial splines

chapter 5|26 pages

Generalized linear models

chapter 6|22 pages

Extending the model

chapter 7|26 pages

Thin plate splines

chapter 8|6 pages

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