By D. E. Amos, M. L. Slater
Communications of the ACM,
July 1969,
Vol. 12 No. 7, Pages 379-380
10.1145/363156.363163
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The problem of approximation to a given function, or of fitting a given set of data, where the approximating function is required to have certain of its derivatives of specified sign over the whole range of approximation, is studied. Two approaches are presented, in each of which quadratic programming is used to provide both the constraints on the derivatives and the selection of the function which yields the best fit. The first is a modified Berstein polynomial scheme, and the second is a spline fit.
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