Etymology

Savitzky-Golay filter

Today it means: A digital filter that can be applied to a set of digital data points for the purpose of smoothing the data. Full definition →

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Named after Abraham Savitzky and Marcel J. E. Golay, who popularized the existing method and published tables of coefficients in 1964.

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