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How does Lowess smoothing work?
Lowess Smoothing: Overview
LOWESS (Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing), sometimes called LOESS (locally weighted smoothing), is a popular tool used in regression analysis that creates a smooth line through a timeplot or scatter plot to help you to see relationship between variables and foresee trends.
What is the difference between Lowess and LOESS?
lowess is for adding a smooth curve to a scatterplot, i.e., for univariate smoothing. loess is for fitting a smooth surface to multivariate data. Both algorithms use locally-weighted polynomial regression, usually with robustifying iterations.
