[BioC] Loess and Lowess

[Rafael A. Irizarry]

james is right but when they appear as "english language" in the 
statistical literature they sometimes mean the same thing: local 
regression smoothing in general.

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, James MacDonald wrote:

> No, they are related but not the same thing. Loess is sort of a
> next-generation version of lowess.
> 
> See ?loess and ?lowess
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> James W. MacDonald
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> >>> "michael watson (IAH-C)" <michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk> 08/04/03
> 08:45AM >>>
> In quite a few of the Bioconductor packages, the terms Loess and Lowess
> appear to be interchangeable.  Are they talking about the same thing?
> 
> Thanks
> Mick
> 
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