Alex Karner <aakarner <at> ucdavis.edu> writes: > I realize these limitations. However, I know that my actual dataset is > reasonably well behaved in the range I want to predict, and I'm not using > the predicted values for any further analysis, only for schematic purposes > in the plot. > > I'm still curious if this type of extension of a loess line is possible, > notwithstanding its statistical shortcomings.
I don't understand why you want to use a local method for a global job. Why not use a spline, a logistic regression (also well behaved!) or some exp-derivate if it is a growth curve? Dieter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
