Hi Peter,

If this article is correct:
http://www.r-bloggers.com/abbreviations-of-r-commands-explained-250-r-abbreviations/
Loess stands for:
[LO]cally [E]stimated [S]catterplot [S]moothing


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Tal


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On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Peter Neuhaus <pneuhaus@pneuhaus.de>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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