In math and statistics, you may occasionally need to calculate the slope of a line generated by coordinates in the (x,y) format. The slope is a value that indicates the rate at which the y value of a ...

Bernstein polynomial estimation provides a robust nonparametric technique for approximating both density and distribution functions. Based on the properties of Bernstein polynomials, which uniformly ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 34, No. 150 (Apr., 1980), pp. 441-463 (23 pages) Constructive proofs and several generalizations of approximation results of J. H. Bramble and S. R. Hilbert are ...