Definition:Lowess/Mistake

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Source Work

2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.):

lowess

Mistake

The name lowess is an acronym derived from 'locally weighted smoothing scatterplots'.

Correction

In fact, the acronym derives from 'locally weighted scatterplot smoothing'.

The form given makes less linguistic sense.

Sources

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