On May 31, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Peter Neuhaus wrote:
Thanks a lot...
... makes it a bit difficult to explain, though...
We drink no wine before its time. Somewhat like trying to explain
splines to non-technical types:
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/03/r/articles/splineducks/splineDucks.htm
--
David.
Peter
Quoting Joris Meys <jorism...@gmail.com>:
This is the paper on which the loess algorithm is based in general:
http://www.econ.pdx.edu/faculty/KPL/readings/cleveland88.pdf
The explanation about the origin of the term LOESS is given on page
597.
Cheers
Joris
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Peter Neuhaus
<pneuh...@pneuhaus.de>wrote:
Dear R-community,
maybe someone can help me with this:
I've been using the loess() smoother for quite a while now, and for
the matter of documentation I'd like to resolve the acronym LOESS.
Unfortunately there's no explanation in the help file, and I didn't
get anything convincing from google either.
I know that the predecessor LOWESS stands for "Locally Weighted
Scatterplot Smoothing". But what does LOESS stand for, specifically?
"Locally Weighted Exponential Scatterplot Smoothing"? As far as
I understand LOESS is still a local polynomial regression, so that
would probably make no sense.
Any help appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Peter
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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