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"smoothing method" refers to a technique or approach used to make something appear or feel smoother. It is often applied to remove roughness, irregularities, or fluctuations to create a more uniform or consistent outcome.
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Never do the authors describe how many records and how many
different smoothing methods they went through before they found this one case where the significance is greater than 95 %.
And in a completely unrelated question, what is the
best smoothing method to use on data that isn't evenly sampled?
(Life actuaries use
this smoothing method in cash flow testing to calculate required capital, because sometimes small changes in spread produce large differences in the results for a particular scenario.)
Given that there is some observational, theoretical, statistical, and model - based support for the general anomaly -
smoothing method, it seems reasonable to use it.
His supposition that he can deduce from his flawed reconstruction of Mann's
smoothing method the nature of the «Nature trick» is absurd.