Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:45:51
From: S Bond
Subject: Re: polynomial degree
The interpolating polynomial should be the lowest degree polynomial that interpolates the data points. We are not doing least-squares in this chapter. A cubic spline is a piecewise polynomial with each piece of degree 3. -SB Eric Tsai wrote: > Is there a recommended degree number to use for polyfit/spline for comp 7.4 > or should we just use something reasonable. > > -Thanks, > Eric Tsai > >