Approximation of a Thin Plate Spline Smoother Using Continuous Piecewise Polynomial Functions

DOI10.1137/S0036142901383296zbMath1041.65019MaRDI QIDQ4443586

Markus Hegland, Irfan Altas, Stephen G. Roberts

Publication date: 18 January 2004

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

convergence; error estimates; numerical examples; finite element methods; thin plate splines; surface fitting; surface smoothing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65D07: Numerical computation using splines

65D10: Numerical smoothing, curve fitting

41A15: Spline approximation