[R] loess() v.s. lowess()

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Just out of curious, is there any difference between loess() and
> lowess() in R (and Splus in fact).

Yes.

> Which one is more often used?

loess() is much more powerful.

See the white book (Chambers & Hastie ca 1992) and the respective help
pages.

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