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<p><a href="page.php?w=Kernel_smoother">kernels</a>, and <a href="page.php?w=Local_regression">local weighted regression</a>.</p>

<p><big>Compared to curve fitting</big></p>
<p>Smoothing may be distinguished from the related and partially overlapping concept of <a href="page.php?w=curve_fitting">curve fitting</a> in the following ways:<br/>
* curve fitting often involves the use of an explicit function form for the result, whereas the immediate results from smoothing are the "smoothed" values with no later use made of a functional form if there is one;<br/>
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