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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joris Meys Statistical Consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control Coupure Links 653 B-9000 Gent tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
