Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 361, No. 4 (Apr., 2009), pp. 1765-1790 (26 pages) We provide two methods for constructing smooth bump functions and for smoothly cutting off ...
Smoothness penalties are efficient regularization and dimension reduction tools for functional regressions. However, for spiky functional data observed on a dense grid, the coefficient function in a ...
Muscles play a part in every function of the body. The muscular system is made up of over 600 muscles. These include three muscle types: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. Only skeletal muscles are ...