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Some theoretical results on Tukey’s 3R smoother

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Smoothing Techniques for Curve Estimation

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Recently Tukey has proposed several non-linear smoothers for time series, which have some properties that make them preferable in some ways to linear filters. We discuss these properties, and give some detailed results for one of these smoothers.

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  1. Bell Laboratories, 07974, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

    C. L. Mallows

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Th. Gasser M. Rosenblatt

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Mallows, C.L. (1979). Some theoretical results on Tukey’s 3R smoother. In: Gasser, T., Rosenblatt, M. (eds) Smoothing Techniques for Curve Estimation. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0098491

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