where the functions f1, to f6 are smooth functions estimated using a thin plate regression spline.
Buckling of the FGM coating due to compressive residual stresses is analyzed using a thin plate theory; the buckle-driven delamination is modeled accordingly.
Herein we propose and demonstrate an all-optical US/PA scanhead using a thin plate for optoacoustic generation in US imaging, a polymer microring resonator for acoustic detection, and a dichroic filter to switch between the two imaging modes by changing the laser wavelength.
Climate surfaces were developed using a thin plate smoothing spline algorithm implemented in ANUSPLIN software a program for interpolating noisy multivariate data with latitude, longitude, and elevation as independent variables.
We used a thin plate spline to model the anterior lamina cribrosa surface in 3D and quantified the goodness-of-fit of the thin plate spline method by calculating the residual RMS fitting error.
The survivor function by age is estimated from data on the number of deaths per capita by m (a ) = exp (− ∫ 0 a μ (t ) d t ) with age-dependent mortality rate μ using a thin plate regression spline model with the gam-function in the R-package mgvc (Wood, 2011; Hens, 2012).
The survivor function by age is estimated from data on the number of deaths per capita by m (a ) = exp (− ∫ 0 a μ (t ) d t ) with age-dependent mortality rate μ using a thin plate regression spline model with the gam-function in the R-package mgvc (Hens 2012, Wood 2011).
It was created by interpolation using a thin-plate smoothing spline of observed climate at weather stations, with latitude, longitude and elevation as independent variables (http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/publications/software/).anu.edu.au/publications/software/
Morphometric analysis of body shape variation was conducted using a thin-plate spline analysis calculated by the program tpsRelW (Rohlf 2008).
All data sets were transformed using a thin-plate-spline-based landmark registration (Bookstein 1989), bias field correction was performed using the N4 algorithm, and the start template was created by voxel-wise averaging.
