... Archives . ... Diab Jerius follows up on LOESS techniques б with a very nice summary update and finds LOCFIT to be very useful, but there are still questions about how it deals with measurement errors and combining observations from different experiments: . ... LOESS has been succeeded by LOWESS and, finally LOCFIT, which is the 800lb gorilla of local regression fitting. The LOCFIT algorithm uses local regression (i.e. fits over samples of the data) to generate smooth curves. ... Chandra Blog . ...