Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for a cubic to be monotone on an interval.These conditions are used to develop an algorithm which constructs a visually pleasing monotone piecewise cubic interpolant to monotone data. Several examples are given which compare this algorithm with other interpolation methods.
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