Running medians

La fonction smooth proposes several predefined smoothers, namely "3RS3R", "3RSS", "3RSR", "3R", "3", et "S"; see the documentation for more details: help(smooth).

Examples

smooth(ts)Uses default "3RS3R"
smooth(ts,"3")Running medians of span "3"
smooth(ts,kind="3")same
smooth(ts,"3R",twiceit=TRUE)Running medians, repeated and then twiced

The function value of smooth() is the smoothed variable; to visualize it on a scatterplot, use something like:

plot(ts)
lines(smooth(ts))

R has many more functions for smoothing time series, check the documentation.

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