Meanings
nounSavitzky-Golay filter (plural Savitzky-Golay filters)
plural Savitzky-Golay filters
- A digital filter that can be applied to a set of digital data points for the purpose of smoothing the data.
Origin
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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