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An on-line algorithm for fitting straight lines between data ranges

Joseph O'Rourke
- 01 Sep 1981 - 
- Vol. 24, Iss: 9, pp 574-578
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An algorithm is presented that finds all the straight lines that pierce each data range, and it is shown that the half-plane intersection algorithm of Shamos and Hoey can be improved in this special case to O(n).
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Applications often require fitting straight lines to data that is input incrementally. The case where a data range [ak, ok] is received at each tk, t1

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