Many applied studies collect one or more ordered categorical predictors, which do not fit neatly within classic regression frameworks. In most cases, ordinal predictors are treated as either nominal (unordered) variables or metric (continuous) variables in regression models, which is theoretically and/or computationally undesirable. In this paper, we discuss the benefit of taking a smoothing sp...

An accurate wind turbine power curve (WTPC) plays a vital role in forecasting and condition monitoring. There are two major shortcomings of current WTPC models that prevent more estimation, limited nonlinear fitting ability the lack in-depth understanding complex characteristics WTPC. This paper proposes novel regression to overcome these disadvantages simultaneously. First, they make use multi...

The objective of this paper is to introduce a general scheme for the construction of interpolatory approximation formulas and compactly supported wavelets by using spline functions with arbitrary (nonuniform) knots. Both construction procedures are based on certain “optimally local” interpolatory fundamental spline functions which are not required to possess any approximation property.

B-spline functions are widely used in many industrial applications such as computer graphic representations, computer aided design, computer aided manufacturing, computer numerical control, etc. Recently, there exist some demands, e.g. in reverse engineering (RE) area, to employ B-spline curves for non-trivial cases that include curves with discontinuous points, cusps or turning points from the...

In this paper existence and uniqueness of twelfth degree spline is proved with application to quadrature. This formula is in the class of splines of degree 12 and continuity order [Formula: see text] that matches the derivatives up to order 6 at the knots of a uniform partition. Some mistakes in the literature are pointed out and corrected. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the applica...

Converting a quadrilateral input mesh into a C surface with one bi-3 tensorproduct spline patch per facet is a classical challenge. We give explicit local averaging formulas for the spline control points. Where the quadrilateral mesh is not regular, the patches have two internal double knots, the least number and multiplicity to always allow for an unbiased G construction.

Measured bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data have been used to represent complex interaction between lights and surface materials for photorealistic rendering. However, their massive size makes it hard to adopt them in practical rendering applications. In this paper, we propose an adaptive method for B-spline volume representation of measured BRDF data. It basically perf...