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Analysis of uncertain data: Smoothing of histograms

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posted on 2009-10-01, 00:00 authored by Eugene Fink, Ankur Sarin, Jaime G. Carbonell

We consider the problem of converting a set of numeric data points into a smoothed approximation ofthe underlying probability distribution. We describe arepresentation of distributions by histograms with variable-width bars, and give a greedy smoothing algorithm based on this representation.

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