To change the lowess smoothing parameters
main topic example
1 Double-click the lowess smoother.
2 Click
the Options tab.
3 Under
Lowess Smoothing Parameters,
do one or more of the following:
· In
Degree of smoothing,
enter a number between 0 and 1 for the fraction (f) of the total number
of points to use to calculate the fitted values at each x-value. The default
is 0.5. See Specifying
lowess smoothing parameters.
· In
Number of steps,
enter a number from 0 to 10 to specify the number of iterations of smoothing
used to limit the influence of outliers. Each step reduces the weight
given to outliers in the next iteration. The default is 2.
See Specifying
Lowess Smoothing Parameters for details.
4 Click
OK.