SAS’s Rick Wicklin showed a simple loess smoother for the temperature data we showed here. Then he came back with a better approach that does away with edge effects. Rick’s smoothing was calculated and plotted on a cartesian plane. In this entry we’…
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Example 9.25: It’s been a mighty warm winter? (Plot on a circular axis)
People here in the northeast US consider this to have been an unusually warm winter. Was it?The University of Dayton and the US Environmental Protection Agency maintain an archive of daily average temperatures that’s reasonably current. In the case o…