The modification of a set of data to make it smooth and nearly continuous and remove or diminish outlying points.
Smoothing
See also
Graph Smoothing, Moving Average, Savitzky-Golay FilterExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Lanczos, C. "Trigonometric Interpolation of Empirical and Analytic Functions." J. Math. Phys. 17, 123-199, 1938.Rhodes, E. C. Tracts for Computers, No. 6: Smoothing. London: Cambridge University Press, 1921.Whittaker, E. T. and Robinson, G. "Graduation, or the Smoothing of Data." Ch. 11 in The Calculus of Observations: A Treatise on Numerical Mathematics, 4th ed. New York: Dover, pp. 285-316, 1967.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
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