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spence.15(y)

Spencer's 15 point rule is a weighted moving average operation for a sequence of observations equally spaced in time. The average at time t depends on the observations at times t-7,...,t+7.

Except for boundary effects, the function will reproduce polynomials up to degree 3.

y

Data vector of observations at equally spaced points.

A vector with the same length as the input vector, representing the graduated (smoothed) values.

data(spencer)
yy <- spence.15(spencer$mortality)
plot(spencer$age, spencer$mortality)
lines(spencer$age, yy)

spence.21, spencer,

Spencer, J. (1904). On the graduation of rates of sickness and mortality. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries 38, 334-343.

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