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 DistributionsEstimating Distribution Functions with Smoothing Splinestext::report