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Oftentimes, practicing engineers are required to develop new models of existing undocumented systems they need to understand. These could be, for example, man-made legacy systems for which documentation is outdated or missing, or natural systems that have never been properly studied. In all cases, there are no design documents or theoretical resources available to guide the modelling. The only option available is to take discrete measurements of the system and to discover the underlying mathematical function that generates these points. This chapter will present a set of mathematical and modelling tools that can perform this task.
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Khoury, R., Harder, D.W. (2016). Interpolation, Regression, and Extrapolation. In: Numerical Methods and Modelling for Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21176-3_6
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