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 ...

The use of spline functions in the analysis of empirical two-dimensional data (yi,xi) is described. The definition of spline functions as piecewise polynomials with continuity conditions give them ...