derivatives from loess (not locpoly)?

A possible alternative is locfit(..., deriv=...) (in package `locfit'), as
described in Section 6.1 of Loader's "Local Regression and Likelihood".

Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 3:12 AM
To: J S
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] derivatives from loess (not locpoly)?

Not easily. Unlike locpoly (in KernSmooth, uncredited), loess uses a 
locally varying bandwidth and that would need to be taken 
into account in 
determining the derivative.  The underlying Fortran code does 
not have any 
support for this.

On Sat, 17 May 2003, J S wrote:

is there a way of estimating derivative curves, similar to 
the ones we
get from 'locpoly', from 'loess' estimation.

 i am interested in estimation of 1st and 2nd derivatives...
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