Local Regression, Likelihood and Density Estimation

Local regression, likelihood and density estimation methods as described in the 1999 book by Loader.


A note about license:

Earlier versions of locfit had a license which restricted usage.
The code was re-licensed by Prof. Loader in a version sent to 
Andy Liaw in 2005 from which this CRAN distribution is derived.

Reference manual

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install.packages("locfit")

1.5-9.12 by Andy Liaw, 2 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/locfit


Authors: Catherine Loader [aut] , Jiayang Sun [ctb] , Lucent Technologies [cph] , Andy Liaw [cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports lattice

Suggests interp, gam

System requirements: USE_C17


Imported by CoImp, FateID, LSX, MAnorm2, RaceID, TSA, ergmclust, hdrcde, independenceWeights, kdecopula, rsurvstat, serosv, sffdr, statgenHTP, tvGarchKF.

Depended on by ELT, EMD, abc, hierSDR, nlts.

Suggested by ContourFunctions, DAAGbio, GET, kedd, mFilter, peperr, reldist, spatstat.explore, spatstat.linnet, spatstat.model, ursa.


See at CRAN