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O możliwości wykorzystania regresji LOESS w analizie szeregów czasowych
On the Possibility of Using the LOESS Regression in the Analysis of Time Series

Author(s): Radosław Poniat
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Social history, History and theory of sociology, Demography and human biology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: ggplot2; LOESS regression; time series

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the statistical method known as the LOESS Regression and a possibility of its application in the analysis of time series. The advantages of the methodhave been compared to the alternative techniques: the central moving average and the linear regression to calculate the trends in time. The final part of the article contains the instruction of how to calculate the LOESS Regression in the R program with the package ggplot2.

  • Issue Year: 38/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 104-115
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish