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- From: wskelly@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (William Skelly)
- Subject: Re: Least Square Errors
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:49:13 GMT
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- Anthony,
-
- Your problem is of wide interest to many people, not
- sure I can help, but I have been working on a related
- problem...below is the context of this problem, something
- I have been trying to sort out wrt. to my own work. Perhaps
- others could contribute...perhaps I whistling something
- other that Dixie?
-
- Problem: INTERPOLATION
-
- Approach: Non-stochastic vs. Stochastic
-
- Non-Stochastic techniques
- polynomial fitting
- splines
-
- Stochastic techniques
- moving average
- kriging
-
- Using polynomial fitting one does not preserve the original
- data points --- therefore it is very useful as a global or
- smoothing technique. This is also true of moving average
- techniques.
-
- Splines do preserve the original data points and spline
- fitting is a huge area (literature wise). Generally splines
- are fit locally so that changing or removing points does not
- affect the entire data set.
-
- IMHO the stochastic methods are most interesting, the class
- of techniques called BLUE (best linear unbiased estimators)
- particularly those called kriging (or Gandin optimal methods
- in meteorology) allow you to derive error variance estimates
- so that you can where your curve is likely to be less
- reliable.
-
-
- I am not sure if it is important in your case, but remember
- that if you are fitting polynomials you are implicitly imposing
- a certain structure on your data (true also in the case of
- sin and cos functions).
-
- I have found the following to be extremely helpful in all
- areas of interpolation, but particularly the two dimensional
- cases:
-
- Davis, J.C. 1986. Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology,
- 2nd Ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- -it also comes with software and sample data sets
-
- Cheers,
- Chris
-