Abstract

We study statistical approximation properties of -Bernstein-Shurer operators and establish some direct theorems. Furthermore, we compute error estimation and show graphically the convergence for a function by operators and give its algorithm.

1. Introduction and Preliminaries

In 1987, Lupaş [1] introduced the first -analogue of Bernstein operator and investigated its approximating and shape-preserving properties. Another -generalization of the classical Bernstein polynomials is due to Phillips [2]. After that many generalizations of well-known positive linear operators, based on -integers, were introduced and studied by several authors. Recently the statistical approximation properties have also been investigated for -analogue polynomials. For instance, in [1] -analogues of Bernstein-Kantorovich operators; in [3] -Baskakov-Kantorovich operators; in [4] -Szász-Mirakjan operators; in [5, 6] -Bleimann, Butzer and Hahn operators; in [7] -analogue of Baskakov and Baskakov-Kantorovich operators; in [8] -analogue of Szász Kantorovich operators; in [9, 10] -analogue of Stancu-Beta operators; and in [11] -Lagrange polynomials were defined and their classical approximation or statistical approximation properties were investigated.

Schurer [12] introduced the following operators defined for any and any function :

Recently, Muraru [13] introduced the -analogue of these operators and investigated their approximation properties and rate of convergence using modulus of continuity. Note that Radu [14] has also used -intgers to define and study the approximation properties of the -analogue of Kantorovich operators.

In this paper, we study the statistical approximation properties by -Bernstein-Schurer operators. We also give some direct theorems.

We recall certain notations of -calculus. Let . For any , the -integer is defined by and the -factorial by Also, the -binomial coefficients are defined by Details on -integers can be found in [14].

Muraru [13] introduced the following operators known as the generalized -Bernstein-Schurer operators. For any , a fixed positive integer, and ,

We note the following properties as in [13] for .

Lemma 1. For , ,

Lemma 2. For , ,

Lemma 3. For , ,

Lemma 4. Let . Then for

Lemma 5. Let . Then for

2. Statistical Approximation

In this section we obtain the Korovkin type weighted statistical approximation properties for these operators defined in (5). Korovkin type approximation theory [15] has also many useful connections, other than classical approximation theory, in other branches of mathematics (see Altomare and Campiti [16]).

First we recall the concept of statistical convergence for sequences of real numbers which was introduced by Fast [17] and further studied by many others.

Let and . Then the natural density of is defined by if the limit exists, where denotes the cardinality of the set .

A sequence of real numbers is said to be to provided that for every the set has natural density zero; that is, for each ,

In this case, we write . Note that every convergent sequence is statistically convergent but not conversely, even unbounded sequence may be statistically convergent. For example, let be defined by

Then , but is not convergent.

Recently the idea of statistical convergence has been used in proving some approximation theorems, in particular, Korovkin type approximation theorems by various authors, and it was found that the statistical versions are stronger than the classical ones. Authors have used many types of classical operators and test functions to study the Korovkin type approximation theorems which further motivate continuation of this study. After the paper of Gadjiev and Orhan [18], different types of summability methods have been deployed in approximation process, for example, [1923]. Recently, -statistical convergence has been used to the summability of Walsh-Fourier series [24].

Let be the space of all bounded and continuous functions on . Then is a normed linear space with . Let be a function of the type of modulus of continuity. The principal properties of the function are the following: is a nonnegative increasing function on ,.

Let be the space of all real valued functions defined on satisfying the following condition: for any .

We consider a sequence , , such that The condition (14) guarantees that as .

Now our first result is as follows.

Theorem 6. Let be the sequence of the operators (5), and the sequence satisfies (14). Then for any function ,

Proof. Let where . Since , therefore we can write as By (14), it can be observed that Similarly For a given , let us define the following sets: It is obvious that ; it can be written as By using (14), we get Therefore and we have Lastly, we have Therefore by (25), we get Now, if we choose then, by (14), we can write Now for given , we define the following four sets: It is obvious that . Then we obtain Using (28), we get Since we get which implies that
This completes the proof of the theorem.

Remark 7. In the following example, we demonstrate that the statistical version is stronger than the ordinary approximation. Let us write , where the sequence is defined by (12). Then under the hypothesis of the previous theorem, we have However, does not exist, since is statistically convergent but not convergent.

3. Direct Theorems

The Peetre’s -functional is defined by where

By [25], there exists a positive constant such that , , where the second-order modulus of continuity is given by

Also for the usual modulus of continuity is given by

Theorem 8. Let and such that . Then for all and fixed, there exists an absolute constant such that where

Proof. Let . From Taylor’s expansion, we get And, by Lemmas 1, 2, and 3, we get Using Lemma 5, we obtain On the other hand, by the definition of , we have Now Hence taking infimum on the right hand side over all , we get In view of the property of -functional, we get
This completes the proof of the theorem.

Let be the space of all bounded functions for which is finite.

Theorem 9. Let be such that , , and the sequence satisfies (14). Then the following equality holds: uniformly on .

Proof. By the Taylor’s formula we may write where is the remainder term and . Applying to (50), we obtain By the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, we have Observing that and , then it follows from Theorem 8 that uniformly with respect to . Now from (52), (53), and Lemma 5, we get Finally using Lemmas 4 and 5, we get the following:
This completes the proof of the theorem.

4. Example

Let us take . We compute error estimation [26] by using modulus of continuity for operators (5) to the function shown in Table 1 with the help of MATLAB and Algorithm 1.

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