[R] What does LOESS stand for?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess .  It is not an acronym:
the derivation is given in the reference given by ?loess, p.314.


On Mon, 31 May 2010, Peter Neuhaus 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

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