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scipy.interpolate.splev

scipy.interpolate.splev(x, tck, der=0, ext=0)

Evaluate a B-spline or its derivatives.

Given the knots and coefficients of a B-spline representation, evaluate the value of the smoothing polynomial and its derivatives. This is a wrapper around the FORTRAN routines splev and splder of FITPACK.

Parameters :

x : array_like

A 1-D array of points at which to return the value of the smoothed spline or its derivatives. If tck was returned from splprep, then the parameter values, u should be given.

tck : tuple

A sequence of length 3 returned by splrep or splprep containing the knots, coefficients, and degree of the spline.

der : int

The order of derivative of the spline to compute (must be less than or equal to k).

ext : int

Controls the value returned for elements of x not in the interval defined by the knot sequence.

• if ext=0, return the extrapolated value.
• if ext=1, return 0
• if ext=2, raise a ValueError

The default value is 0.

Returns :

y : ndarray or list of ndarrays

An array of values representing the spline function evaluated at the points in x. If tck was returned from splrep, then this is a list of arrays representing the curve in N-dimensional space.

See also

splprep, splrep, sproot, spalde, splint, bisplrep, bisplev

References

[R32]

C. de Boor, “On calculating with b-splines”, J. Approximation Theory, 6, p.50-62, 1972.

[R33]

M.G. Cox, “The numerical evaluation of b-splines”, J. Inst. Maths Applics, 10, p.134-149, 1972.

[R34]

P. Dierckx, “Curve and surface fitting with splines”, Monographs on Numerical Analysis, Oxford University Press, 1993.