A spline kernel based smoothing algorithm : a comparison of methods with a spatiotemporal application to global climate fluctuations
Cyr, Derek Daniel · Scholars Archive - University at Albany (University at Albany, State University of New York) · 2010
In statistics, smoothing is a technique that attempts to capture the key patterns or trends in data while leaving out the noise that is obscuring them. Nonparametric techniques are well-suited for smoothing as they do not rely on assumptions that the data arise from a given probability distribution.