LOESS

See also: loess

English

Noun

LOESS (plural LOESSs)

  1. (statistics) Acronym of locally estimated scatterplot smoothing.
    • 1986, William S. Cleveland and Susan J. Delvin, “Locally Weighted Regression: An Approach to Regression Analysis by Local Fitting”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association[1], volume 83, number 403, page 596:
      Locally weighted regression, or loess, is a procedure for fitting a regression surface to data through multivariate smoothing.

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