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The approximation of a general $d$-variate function $f$ by the shifts $\phi(\cdot-\xi)$, $\xi\in\Xi\subset \Rd$, of a fixed function $\phi$ occurs in many applications such as data fitting, neural networks, and learning theory. When…
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