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From: M.J.Ratcliffe@bris.ac.uk
Subject: Thin plate spline function
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Hi,

Several (and there are not many compared to the number of MLP/backprop 
refs...) RBF references blandly state that 'The Thin Plate Spline 
function does not require a spread constant...'. Why the bloody hell not? 

Also does anybody have any references on the differences between using 
different RBF functions - Gaussian, TPSF, multi-quadric, teapot, etc. 	
Ideally these would be neural net-based RBF refs, rather than statistical 
theory.

Ta,
Max.

