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numerical differentiation

2 messages · Oliver Kullmann, Brian Ripley

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Hi,

I would like like to compute first and second derivative
from numerical data. I hoped I could compute a spline
object from the data (that works), and then compute the
derivative from that spline objects, but I couldn't find
anything like that.

Does somebody know how to get numerical derivatives?

Oliver

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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Oliver Kullmann wrote:

            
Package pspline on CRAN will fit a spline to data and then predict
its derivatives.

smooth.spline in package modreg will do the same thing, but only for
cubic splines where the second derivative is piecewise linear.
A quintic spline would be a better idea, and pspline allows that.