This chapter presents the most common types of splines used in chemometric applications such as interpolation, smoothing, baseline correction, differentiation, and data compression. It does not go deep into the theory, but presents the basic ideas and algorithms. The scope is limited to polynomial splines, which are the most common ones in chemometric applications. Both piecewise and basis
... [Show full abstract] function presentations (i.e., B-splines) of splines are given. The emphasis is on smoothing splines, which are typically needed in processing spectral data. The methods are illustrated using infrared (IR) spectra.