Smoothing

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In statistics and image processing, to smooth a data set is to create an approximating function that attempts to capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise or other fine-scale structures/rapid phenomena.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Smoothing”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Gilles Mairet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.