%reading.txt (hw5) read BEFORE lecture

Reading for upcoming lectures: 

* - in pdf directory 

                       topic                    reading
  Lect 6   Second variational problem          book-Sect 1.3, 
                                               *kimeldorf.wahba.pdf 
		polynomial spline as soln to 
		    second variational problem, 
	        review of matrix decompositions            
  
  Lect 7   Choosing the smoothing parameter     book-Chap 4, *craven.wahba.pdf 
                      (Gaussian noise)          *heckman.ramsay.pdf
  
  Lect 8   The thin plate spline                book-Section 2.4
					        *wahba.wendelberger.pdf
                                                *gu.wahba.tps.93.pdf 
  
  Lect 9  Properties of the GCV estimate        book Chap 4 


  book = Spline Models for Observational Data, SIAM 1990
   Available online with your net id. Search for Spline at

  http://epubs.siam.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ebooks

  *these papers are in the  pdf1 directory.