“…Several interpolation operators have been introduced and studied to increase the degree of exactness of the Shepard operator: Taylor [7,8,14,15,24], Lagrange [8,9], Hermite [5,8], Birkhoff [6,8], least square approximations [20,21,22,25], and splines [8]. The present paper is devoted to a further combination of the Shepard operator with a new interpolation operator, the generalized Taylor polynomial, recently proposed by F. Costabile [10]. In section 2 we recall some known properties of the generalized Taylor polynomial and give new results on the error of approximation that will be used later in the paper.…”