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This paper is about the definition and effectiveness and fast implementation of a particular family of smoothing filters. These “Savitzky-Golay filters” are popular in spectroscopy. But to filter experts in other areas they are virtually unknown! Since the filters are constructed in a very natural way, they allow analysis and explanation. They can give excellent results provided the filter length is correctly chosen, and they deserve to be understood.
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Persson, PO., Strang, G. (2003). Smoothing by Savitzky-Golay and Legendre Filters. In: Rosenthal, J., Gilliam, D.S. (eds) Mathematical Systems Theory in Biology, Communications, Computation, and Finance. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 134. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21696-6_11
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