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Monotone smoothing splines with bounds

Optimization and Control 2020-01-22 v2

Abstract

The problem of monotone smoothing splines with bounds is formulated as a constrained minimization problem of the calculus of variations. Existence and uniqueness of solutions of this problem is proved, as well as the equivalence of it to a finite dimensional but nonlinear optimization problem. A new algorithm for computing the solution which is a spline curve, using a branch and bound technique, is presented. The method is applied to examples in neuroscience and for fitting cumulative distribution functions from data.

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@article{arxiv.1909.06765,
  title  = {Monotone smoothing splines with bounds},
  author = {Sara Maad Sasane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06765},
  year   = {2020}
}
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