The crucial question, however, is "Where do the weights come from?" :-)
btw, "kernel smoothing" etc. are still fairly complex terms that sound a bit like math magic: 1-nearest-neighbor (1-nn), k-nearest-neighbor (knn), and weighted knn would be even simpler and possibly more descriptive.
btw, "kernel smoothing" etc. are still fairly complex terms that sound a bit like math magic: 1-nearest-neighbor (1-nn), k-nearest-neighbor (knn), and weighted knn would be even simpler and possibly more descriptive.