finding the equation of spline in matlab
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I have a curve (spline or polynomial) and suppose I can find as many points as I want. How can I find the equation of the curve I have plotted in MATLAB?
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Roche de Guzman
on 30 Apr 2018
For the MATLAB function: spline, use the syntax: pp = spline(x,y) to get a structure data. Then extract the coefficients of the cubic spline arranged per row in a matrix form: C = pp.coefs, where C rows are: [a b c d] of the equation: f(x) = (a(x-x1)^3)+(b(x-x1)^2)+(c(x-x1))+(d) in the interval: [x1 x2].
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Hin Kwan Wong
on 1 Dec 2011
Your question is ambigious. Are you trying to fit a spline to a spline or some data you don't know its nature?
You can't easily, given a spline curve, to fit a spline over it and reclaim the original spline parameters, as you need to know exactly the break points and the order of the spline. However, if you are talking about data, you can fit a spline or polynomial over the data as you see fit.
Just read
doc polyfit
For polynomial you use the polyfit function, which performas a least square regression to find the equation of the polynomial.
doc spline
is the spline fitting function.
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Matt Allen
on 25 Jun 2013
Edited: Matt Allen
on 25 Jun 2013
If I understand your question correctly, you want to fit data to a spline over a grid. As Mr. Wong mentions, with Matlab's basic functionality you can fit a polynomial to data (which performs poorly for a complex function) or you can use a spline to interpolate on known values, but you can't fit a spline to data. To do this you need the curve fitting toolbox. The help for that toolbox is not very good but you can experiment with the functionality you want using "splinetool".
Most of us want a command line option, and after some digging I found that the following works:
x = 0:.25:10; y = sin(x);
xd=[0:.01:10];
yd=sin(xd)+0.1*randn(size(xd));
figure(1)
plot(x,y,'o-',xd,yd)
B= spap2(6,4,xd,yd) % 6 is the number of divisions, 4 the order of polynomial on each.
% fnplt(B) % this is a quick way to plot the fit, but doesn't give much freedom.
yfit=fnval(B,xd);
hold on; plot(xd,yfit,'r');
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