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		jfasi on Aug 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Seven habits of highly fraudulent users Is it just me, or did they really just fit a quintic curve to theirs "Fraudsters are Sneaky" plot? There had better be a good reason for their using such a high-dimensional polynomial.

sks on Aug 1, 2014 [–]

It may be a non parametric estimate. My guess is that they used loess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_regression).

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