Restle, Eva Maria2006-04-042006-04-042006-04-041999https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/229175The scope is to smooth the empirical distribution function of a random sample by minimizing a penalized sum of squared errors. The spline, which is the solution to this problem, is studied via the eigenvalue structure of the random matrices ocurring in its representationSmoothing of Distributionstext::report