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LOESS

LOESS (locally estimated scatterplot smoothing), introduced by William Cleveland in 1979 and extended with Susan Devlin in 1988, fits a smooth curve through data by performing a separate weighted polynomial regression in the neighbourhood of each point. Nearby observations count more than distant ones, so the method follows local structure without assuming any global functional form, making it a popular exploratory smoother for scatterplots.

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Local Regression (LOESS / LOWESS)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / machine-learning
  • Cleveland, W. S. (1979). Robust locally weighted regression and smoothing scatterplots. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74(368), 829–836. · DOI 10.1080/01621459.1979.10481038
  • Cleveland, W. S., & Devlin, S. J. (1988). Locally weighted regression: an approach to regression analysis by local fitting. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83(403), 596–610. · DOI 10.1080/01621459.1988.10478639
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Same method familyGeneralized Additive Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoPolynomial Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRegression Splinesmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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