james is right but when they appear as "english language" in the statistical literature they sometimes mean the same thing: local regression smoothing in general. On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, James MacDonald wrote: > 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 > Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core > University of Michigan Cancer Center > 1500 E. Medical Center Drive > 7410 CCGC > Ann Arbor MI 48109 > 734-647-5623 > > >>> "michael watson (IAH-C)" <michael.watson@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >