LOWESS, Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing for linear and non-linear data (enhanced)

LOWESS, a robust regression like LOWESS allows detecton of a trend otherwise with too much variance

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Jeff Burkey (2026). LOWESS, Locally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing for linear and non-linear data (enhanced) (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22470-lowess-locally-weighted-scatterplot-smoothing-for-linear-and-non-linear-data-enhanced), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.4.0

There wasnt really an issue having zero values; rather, when supplying data with no time sequence, the interpolation would error.

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1.3.0

Updated graphing. Revised input. Includes example data file. Revised output.

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1.2.0

Added a sorting call. Also added a few lines of code allow the user to supply a second set of x-values to be used for y-predictions using the results of the lowess regression.

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1.1.0

Added computation of upper and lower smooths of the residuals, also will plot on figure.

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1.0.0

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