BSNAK

Computes the “not-a-knot” spline knot sequence.

Required Arguments

NDATA — Number of data points. (Input)

XDATA — Array of length NDATA containing the location of the data points. (Input)

KORDER — Order of the spline. (Input)

XKNOT — Array of length NDATA + KORDER containing the knot sequence. (Output)

FORTRAN 90 Interface

Generic: CALL BSNAK (NDATA, XDATA, KORDER, XKNOT)

Specific: The specific interface names are S_BSNAK and D_BSNAK.

FORTRAN 77 Interface

Single: CALL BSNAK (NDATA, XDATA, KORDER, XKNOT)

Double: The double precision name is DBSNAK.

Description

Given the data points x = XDATA , the order of the spline k = KORDER, and the number N = NDATA of elements in XDATA, the subroutine BSNAK returns in t = XKNOT a knot sequence that is appropriate for interpolation of data on x by splines of order k. The vector t contains the knot sequence in its first N + k positions. If k is even and we assume that the entries in the input vector x are increasing, then t is returned as

     ti = x1       for i = 1, , k

     ti = x- k/2       for i = k + 1, , N

     ti = xN + ɛ            for i = N + 1, , N + k

where ɛ is a small positive constant. There is some discussion concerning this selection of knots in de Boor (1978, page 211). If k is odd, then t is returned as

 

 

 

It is not necessary to sort the values in x since this is done in the routine BSNAK.

Comments

1. Workspace may be explicitly provided, if desired, by use of B2NAK/DB2NAK. The reference is:

CALL B2NAK (NDATA, XDATA, KORDER, XKNOT, XSRT, IWK)

The additional arguments are as follows:

XSRT — Work array of length NDATA to hold the sorted XDATA values. If XDATA is not needed, XSRT may be the same as XDATA.

IWK — Work array of length NDATA to hold the permutation of XDATA.

2. Informational error

 

Type

Code

Description

4

4

The XDATA values must be distinct.

3. The first knot is at the left endpoint and the last knot is slightly beyond the last endpoint. Both endpoints have multiplicity KORDER.

4. Interior knots have multiplicity one.

Example

In this example, we compute (for k = 3, , 8) six spline interpolants sk to F(x) = sin(10x3) on the interval [0,1]. The routine BSNAK is used to generate the knot sequences for sk and then BSINT is called to obtain the interpolant. We evaluate the absolute error

|sk   F|

at 100 equally spaced points and print the maximum error for each k.

 

USE IMSL_LIBRARIES

 

IMPLICIT NONE

INTEGER KMAX, KMIN, NDATA

PARAMETER (KMAX=8, KMIN=3, NDATA=20)

!

INTEGER I, K, KORDER, NOUT

REAL ABS, AMAX1, BSCOEF(NDATA), DIF, DIFMAX, F,&

FDATA(NDATA), FLOAT, FT, SIN, ST, T, X, XDATA(NDATA),&

XKNOT(KMAX+NDATA), XT

INTRINSIC ABS, AMAX1, FLOAT, SIN

! Define function and tau function

F(X) = SIN(10.0*X*X*X)

T(X) = 1.0 - X*X

! Set up data

DO 10 I=1, NDATA

XT = FLOAT(I-1)/FLOAT(NDATA-1)

XDATA(I) = T(XT)

FDATA(I) = F(XDATA(I))

10 CONTINUE

! Get output unit number

CALL UMACH (2, NOUT)

! Write heading

WRITE (NOUT,99999)

! Loop over different orders

DO 30 K=KMIN, KMAX

KORDER = K

! Generate knots

CALL BSNAK (NDATA, XDATA, KORDER, XKNOT)

! Interpolate

CALL BSINT (NDATA, XDATA, FDATA, KORDER, XKNOT, BSCOEF)

DIFMAX = 0.0

DO 20 I=1, 100

XT = FLOAT(I-1)/99.0

! Evaluate spline

ST = BSVAL(XT,KORDER,XKNOT,NDATA,BSCOEF)

FT = F(XT)

DIF = ABS(FT-ST)

! Compute maximum difference

DIFMAX = AMAX1(DIF,DIFMAX)

20 CONTINUE

! Print maximum difference

WRITE (NOUT,99998) KORDER, DIFMAX

30 CONTINUE

!

99998 FORMAT (' ', I3, 5X, F9.4)

99999 FORMAT (' KORDER', 5X, 'Maximum difference', /)

END

Output

 

KORDER Maximum difference

3 0.0080

4 0.0026

5 0.0004

6 0.0008

7 0.0010

8 0.0004