[BioC] Loess and Lowess

James MacDonald jmacdon at med.umich.edu
Mon Aug 4 10:31:13 MEST 2003


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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