On the Lebesgue constant of the trigonometric Floater-Hormann rational interpolant at equally spaced nodes

It is well known that the classical polynomial interpolation gives bad approximation if the nodes are equispaced. A valid alternative is the family of barycentric rational interpolants introduced by Berrut in [4], analyzed in terms of stability by Berrut and Mittelmann in [5] and their extension done by Floater and Hormann in [8]. In this paper firstly we extend them to the trigonometric case, then as in the Floater-Hormann classical interpolant, we study the growth of the Lebesgue constant on equally spaced points. We show that the growth is logarithmic providing a stable interpolation operato

Fourier methods for smooth distribution function estimation

In this paper we show how to use Fourier transform methods to analyze the asymptotic behavior of kernel distribution function estimators. Exact expressions for the mean integrated squared error in terms of the characteristic function of the distribution and the Fourier transform of the kernel are employed to obtain the limit value of the optimal bandwidth sequence in its greatest generality. The assumptions in our results are mild enough so that they are applicable when the kernel used in the estimator is a superkernel, or even the sinc kernel, and this allows to extract some interesting consequences, as the existence of a class of distributions for which the kernel estimator achieves a first-order improvement in efficiency over the empirical distribution function.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure