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pchip

Piecewise Cubic Hermite Interpolating Polynomial (PCHIP)

Syntax

Description

yi = pchip(x,y,xi) returns vector yi containing elements corresponding to the elements of xi and determined by piecewise cubic interpolation within vectors x and y. The vector x specifies the points at which the data y is given. If y is a matrix, then the interpolation is performed for each column of y and yi is length(xi)-by-size(y,2).

pp = pchip(x,y) returns a piecewise polynomial structure for use by ppval. x can be a row or column vector. y is a row or column vector of the same length as x, or a matrix with length(x) columns.

pchip finds values of an underlying interpolating function at intermediate points, such that:

Remarks

spline constructs in almost the same way pchip constructs . However, spline chooses the slopes at the differently, namely to make even continuous. This has the following effects:

Examples

See Also

interp1, spline, ppval

References

[1]  Fritsch, F. N. and R. E. Carlson, "Monotone Piecewise Cubic Interpolation," SIAM J. Numerical Analysis, Vol. 17, 1980, pp.238-246.

[2]  Kahaner, David, Cleve Moler, Stephen Nash, Numerical Methods and Software, Prentice Hall, 1988.


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