| supsmu {stats} | R Documentation | 
Smooth the (x, y) values by Friedman's ‘super smoother’.
supsmu(x, y, wt, span = "cv", periodic = FALSE, bass = 0)
x | 
 x values for smoothing  | 
y | 
 y values for smoothing  | 
wt | 
 case weights, by default all equal  | 
span | 
 the fraction of the observations in the span of the running
lines smoother, or   | 
periodic | 
 if   | 
bass | 
 controls the smoothness of the fitted curve. Values of up to 10 indicate increasing smoothness.  | 
supsmu is a running lines smoother which chooses between three
spans for the lines. The running lines smoothers are symmetric, with
k/2 data points each side of the predicted point, and values of
k as 0.5 * n, 0.2 * n and 0.05 * n, where
n is the number of data points.  If span is specified,
a single smoother with span span * n is used.
The best of the three smoothers is chosen by cross-validation for each prediction. The best spans are then smoothed by a running lines smoother and the final prediction chosen by linear interpolation.
The FORTRAN code says: “For small samples (n < 40) or if
there are substantial serial correlations between observations close
in x-value, then a pre-specified fixed span smoother (span >
      0) should be used.  Reasonable span values are 0.2 to 0.4.”
Cases with non-finite values of x, y or wt are
dropped, with a warning.
A list with components
x | 
 the input values in increasing order with duplicates removed.  | 
y | 
 the corresponding y values on the fitted curve.  | 
Friedman, J. H. (1984) SMART User's Guide. Laboratory for Computational Statistics, Stanford University Technical Report No. 1.
Friedman, J. H. (1984) A variable span scatterplot smoother. Laboratory for Computational Statistics, Stanford University Technical Report No. 5.
require(graphics)
with(cars, {
    plot(speed, dist)
    lines(supsmu(speed, dist))
    lines(supsmu(speed, dist, bass = 7), lty = 2)
    })