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Spline functions are smooth piecewise functions that are popular tools in approximation theory and which arise naturally in economics.
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Poirier, D.J. (2018). Spline Functions. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1454
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