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Beware the behavior of SMOOTH

Suppose I have an array that has an outlier. A really big outlier: IDL> a = [1.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 1.0d18, 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0, 1.0] I’d like to smooth this double-precision array with a running mean (or boxcar … Continue reading

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