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- From: hougen@focus.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.math.stat
- Subject: Approximation and Estimation (HELP!!)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 18:40:11 GMT
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Summary: estimation
- Keywords: approximation
-
- I need to estimate a 'hill' function between -pi/2 and pi/2. It must
- be 0 at -pi/2 and pi/2 and it must be 1 at 0. It must increase
- monotonically from 0 to 1 on [-pi/2,0] and decrease monotonically from
- 1 to 0 on [0,pi/2]. It must be smooth, ie., differentiable everywhere
- in (-pi/2,pi/2), and have a derivative of 0 at 0.
-
- My first question is, does there exist a basis for functions of the
- above form? In other words, I would like a set of functions {...,
- g_k, ...} such that the unknown function f can be approximated
- arbitrarily well by a weighted sum of functions from the above set.
- In symbols, let f(x) = sum_j a_j g_i_j(x), where i_j are members of an
- index set I.
-
- One possible basis that I've been thinking about is (cos(x))^k with k
- ranging from -inf to +inf. All the members of this set satisfy the
- conditions given above and it appears that any weighted sum of such
- functions will also although it would be nice to prove that.
-
- My second question is, if I have a potential basis, how can I prove
- that it is a complete basis? In other words, how can I prove that any
- f of the above form can be approximated arbitrarily well by a sum of
- functions in the basis set?
-
- My third question is, can the results be extended to two or three
- dimensions? More specifically, assume that the function I am trying
- to estimate, f(x,y,z), satisfies the above conditions in all three
- dimensions. If necessary, assume additional smoothness conditions.
- The same goes for the 1-D case above.
-
- In this case, I would like to use seperable functions as a basis. For
- example, let g_ijk(x,y,z) = (cos(x))^i(cos(y))^j(cos(z))^k. Is this a
- basis? Why or why not?
-
- If you know anything about any part of this question, I would like to
- hear from you. I will post the responses if they are sufficiently
- interesting.
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Darrell R. Hougen
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-