Applied Smoothing Techniques for Data Analysis

The book describes the use of smoothing techniques in statistics, with an emphasis on applications rather than on detailed theory. The text makes extensive reference to S-Plus, as a computing environment in which examples can be explored. S-Plus functions and example scripts are provided to implement many of the techniques described. However, the book is of interest even to readers that do not use S-Plus, since the scripts are only a complement to the main body of text.