oversmoothing

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A form of oversmooth — To smooth excessively

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of oversmooth

    A nice consequence of articulating the method around local-likelihood estimation is that the resulting density estimates are typically smooth and visually pleasant, without oversmoothing important features of the underlying density..

    2016, Gery Geenens, Craig Wang, “Local-likelihood transformation kernel density estimation for positive random variables”, in arXiv
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APA

oversmoothing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversmoothing

MLA

“oversmoothing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversmoothing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oversmoothing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversmoothing.

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