This paper considers nonparametric regression to analyze longitudinal data. Some developments of nonparametric regression have been achieved for longitudinal or clustered categorical data. For exponential family distribution, Lin & Carroll [6] considered nonparametric regression for longitudinal data using GEE-Local Polynomial Kernel (LPK). They showed that in order to obtain an efficient estim...

This paper first describes an algorithm that finds the approximate finite impulse response (FIR) inverse of an FIR filter by minimizing the inversion (or reconstruction) error constrained to zero-bias. The generalization of the inverse filtering problem in the two channel case is the design of perfect reconstruction filter banks that use critical sampling. These considerations lead to the deriv...

The collocation method based on cubic B-spline, is developed to approximate the solution of second kind nonlinear Fredholm integral equations. First of all, we collocate the solution by B-spline collocation method then the Newton-Cotes formula use to approximate the integrand. Convergence analysis has been investigated and proved that the quadrature rule is third order convergent. The presented...

Based on the cubic B-spline curve, new Chinese fonts are generated by wavelet transforms in this paper. The outlines of Chinese fonts are first transformed into B-spline curves. Then, using wavelet transforms, the control points of each curve are decomposed into hierarchies containing the detailed features of the Chinese fonts. Using the synthesis procedure of wavelet transforms, new fonts can ...

Uniform cubic B-spline functions have been used for mapping functions in various areas such as image warping and morphing, 3D deformation, and volume morphing. The injectivity (one-to-one property) of a mapping function is important to obtain good results in these areas. This paper considers the local injectivity conditions of 2D and 3D uniform cubic B-spline functions. We propose a geometric i...

Object-based video coding requires the transmission of the object shape. This shape is sent as a binary α-plane. In lossy packetbased networks, such as the Internet, this information has a nonnegligible probability of not arriving at the receiver, and hence its loss needs to be concealed. In this paper we propose a shape concealment technique utilizing Hermite splines. The algorithm has the fol...

‎‎‎In this paper‎, we use the collocation method for to find an approximate solution of the problem by cubic B-spline basis.‎ The proposed method as a basic function led matrix systems, including band matrices and smoothness and capability to handle low calculative costly. ‎The absolute errors in the solution are compared to existing methods to verify the accuracy and convergent nature of propo...

A collocation method based on modified cubic B-spline functions has been developed for the valuation of European, American and barrier options of a single asset. The new approach contains discretization of temporal derivative using finite difference approximation of and approximating the option price with the modified B-spline functions. Stability of this method has been discussed and it is sho...

Based on the cubic B-spline curve, new Chinese fonts are generated by wavelet transforms in this paper. The outlines of Chinese fonts are first transformed into B-spline curves. Then, using wavelet transforms, the control points of each curve are decomposed into hierarchies containing the detailed features of the Chinese fonts. Using the synthesis procedure of wavelet transforms, new fonts can ...