Re: [R] lowess puzzle

2009-08-06 Thread Donald Braman
Resolved. It works if I set iter=0. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Donald Braman wrote: > I was trying to fit a curve to the number of people who identify as liberal > by age. I got some puzzling results which suggested to me that I don't > really understand how local polynomial fitting works

[R] lowess puzzle

2009-08-06 Thread Donald Braman
I am trying to fit a curve to the number of people who identify as liberal by age. I got some puzzling results which suggested to me that I don't really understand how local polynomial fitting works. Why, I am wondering, is lowess producing a local fit of zero for every age? > liberal [1] 0 0 0

[R] lowess puzzle

2009-08-06 Thread Donald Braman
I was trying to fit a curve to the number of people who identify as liberal by age. I got some puzzling results which suggested to me that I don't really understand how local polynomial fitting works. Why, I am wondering, is lowess producing a local fit of zero for every age? > liberal.bin [1]