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--- Comment #25 from stragu <[email protected]> ---
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side-by-side LibreOffice and R graphs for 2^n cubic spline

I have a very limited understanding of cubic splines, but I feel like this
might be "not a bug".

I have tested building a cubic spline with R and plotting it with ggplot2 for
comparison with what LibreOffice does. Attached is the result: both plots look
the same.
The R code makes sure similar axis breaks are used. 500 values were
interpolated to build the spline curve, using the spline() function and the
method "normal".

R's spline() functions has various methods available. Most of them (fmm,
periodic, natural) will generate negative values to fit a spline to this data.
However, one method (hyman) will only generate values above 0 and be visualised
in the hockey stick look (i.e. shooting up only towards the end, after the x =
80 mark).

As I understand it, LibreOffice's cubic spline smoother uses a normal cubic
spline, whereas xghost was expecting a different kind. Arguably, the exact kind
of interpolation used should be properly documented in our help pages.

xghost, are you able to produce a comparison with a different tool, or a
reference that supports that LibreOffice's calculation is fundamentally wrong?

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