Abstract
Approximation methods are widely used in many fields and many techniques have been published already. This comparative study presents a comparison of LOWESS (Locally weighted scatterplot smoothing) and RBF (Radial Basis Functions) approximation methods on noisy data as they use different approaches. The RBF approach is generally convenient for high dimensional scattered data sets. The LOWESS method needs finding a subset of nearest points if data are scattered. The experiments proved that LOWESS approximation gives slightly better results than RBF in the case of lower dimension, while in the higher dimensional case with scattered data the RBF method has lower computational complexity.
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Abbreviations
- D: :
-
dimension
- K: :
-
k-nearest points
- M: :
-
number of radial basis functions for approximation
- N: :
-
number of all input points
- R: :
-
number of points at which the approximation is calculated
- ξ: :
-
point where to calculate the approximation
- d: :
-
degree of polynomial
- r: :
-
r = d + 2
- q: :
-
q = d + 1
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The authors would like to thank their colleagues at the University of West Bohemia, Plzen, for their comments and suggestions, and anonymous reviewers for their valuable critical comments and advice. The research was supported by MSMT CR projects LH12181 and SGS 2016-013.
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Smolik, M., Skala, V., Nedved, O. (2016). A Comparative Study of LOWESS and RBF Approximations for Visualization. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9787. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42108-7_31
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