VáclavŠmilauer wrote:
> I checked the official terminology, it is a kernel average smoother
> (in the sense of [1]) with special weight function exp(-(x-x0)^2/const),
> operating on irregularly-spaced data in 2d.
> 
> I am not sure if that is the same as what scipy.stats.kde.gaussian_kde does,
> the documentation is terse. Can I be enlightened here?

It looks like they are both part of a similar class of methods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28statistics%29

As such, it makes sense to me to have them all in SciPy, sharing code 
and API.

-Chris


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