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*
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package org.opensourcephysics.numerics;
/**
* LagrangeInterpolator uses a polynomial interpolation formula to evaluate values between data points.
*
* @author W. Christian
* @version 1.0
*/
public class LagrangeInterpolator implements Function {
/**
* Polynomial coefficients.
*/
protected double[] hornerCoef; // generalized Horner expansion coefficients
double[] xd;
double[] yd;
/**
* Constructs a Lagrange interpolating polynomial from the given data using Horner's expansion for
* the representation of the polynomial.
*
* @param xdata double[]
* @param ydata double[]
*/
public LagrangeInterpolator(double[] xdata, double[] ydata) {
hornerCoef = new double[xdata.length];
xd = xdata;
yd = ydata;
computeCoefficients(xdata, ydata);
}
private void computeCoefficients(double[] xd, double[] yd) {
int n = xd.length;
// coefficients = new double[size];
for(int i = 0; i<n; i++) {
hornerCoef[i] = yd[i];
}
n -= 1;
for(int i = 0; i<n; i++) {
for(int k = n; k>i; k--) {
int k1 = k-1;
int kn = k-(i+1);
hornerCoef[k] = (hornerCoef[k]-hornerCoef[k1])/(xd[k]-xd[kn]);
}
}
}
/**
* Computes the interpolated y value for a given x value.
* @param x value
* @return interpolated y value
*/
public double evaluate(double x) {
int n = hornerCoef.length;
double answer = hornerCoef[--n];
while(--n>=0) {
answer = answer*(x-xd[n])+hornerCoef[n];
}
return answer;
}
/**
* Gets the polynomial coefficients c in
* c[0] + c[1] * x + c[2] * x^2 + ....
* This routine should be used with care because the Vandermonde matrix that is being
* solved is ill conditioned. See Press et al.
*
* @return double[]
*/
public double[] getCoefficients() {
int n = xd.length;
double[] temp = new double[n];
double[] coef = new double[n];
temp[n-1] = -xd[0];
for(int i = 1; i<n; i++) {
for(int j = n-i-1; j<n-1; j++) {
temp[j] -= xd[i]*temp[j+1];
}
temp[n-1] -= xd[i];
}
for(int j = 0; j<n; j++) {
double a = n;
for(int k = n-1; k>=1; k--) {
a = k*temp[k]+xd[j]*a;
}
double b = yd[j]/a;
double c = 1.0;
for(int k = n-1; k>=0; k--) {
coef[k] += c*b;
c = temp[k]+xd[j]*c;
}
}
return coef;
}
}
/*
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* or(at your option) any later version.
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*
* This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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*
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* Copyright (c) 2007 The Open Source Physics project
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*/