matlab fnbrk,Name and part(s) of form

Description

[out1,...,outn] = fnbrk(f,part1,...,partm)

returns the part(s) of the form in f specified by

part1,...,partn(assuming that n<=m).

These are the parts used when the form was put together, in spmak or ppmak or rpmak or

rsmak or stmak, but also other parts

derived from these.

You only need to specify the beginning character(s) of the relevant character

vector.

Regardless of what particular form f is in,

parti can be one of the following.

'form'The particular form used

'variables'The dimension of the function's domain

'dimension'The dimension of the function's target

'coefficients'The coefficients in that particular form

'interval'The basic interval of that form

Depending on the form in f, additional parts may be asked

for.

If f is in B-form (or BBform or rBform), then additional

choices for parti are

'knots'The knot sequence

'coefficients'The B-spline coefficients

'number'The number of coefficients

'order'The polynomial order of the spline

If f is in ppform (or rpform), then additional choices for

parti are

'breaks'The break sequence

'coefficients'The local polynomial coefficients

'pieces'The number of polynomial pieces

'order'The polynomial order of the spline

'guide'The local polynomial coefficients, but in the form needed

for PPVALU in PGS

If the function in f is multivariate, then the corresponding

multivariate parts are returned. This means, e.g., that knots, breaks, and the basic

interval, are cell arrays, the coefficient array is, in general, higher than

two-dimensional, and order, number and pieces are vectors.

If f is in stform, then additional choices for

parti are

'centers'The centers

'coefficients'The coefficients

'number'Number of coefficients or terms

'type'The particular type

fnbrk(f,interval) with

interval a 1-by-2 matrix [a b] with

a

a description of the univariate function described by f and in

the same form but with the basic interval changed, to the interval given. If,

instead, interval is [ ], f

is returned unchanged. This is of particular help when the function in

f is m-variate, in which case

interval must be a cell array with m

entries, with the ith entry specifying the desired interval in

the ith dimension. If that ith entry is

[ ], the basic interval in the ith

dimension is unchanged.

fnbrk(pp,j), with pp

the ppform of a univariate function and j a positive integer,

does not return a particular part, but returns the ppform of the

jth polynomial piece of the function in

pp. If pp is the ppform of an

m-variate function, then j must be a cell

array of length m. In that case, each entry of

j must be a positive integer or else an interval, to single

out a particular polynomial piece or else to specify the basic interval in that

dimension.

fnbrk(f) returns nothing, but a

description of the various parts of the form is printed at the command line

instead.