In response, Napier and Burbidge ( 2003 ) argue that the methods employed by Hawkins " et al . " to remove noise from their samples amount to " excessive data smoothing " which could hide a true periodicity.
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Walker presents techniques for Excel-aided or paper-and-pencil data smoothing to allow the dieter to adjust the diet for themselves using the long-term trend and to not be discouraged by short-term fluctuations based on water retention or other factors.
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Inside the volume on fire control a special essay titled " Data Smoothing and Prediction in Fire-Control Systems ", coauthored by Shannon, Ralph Beebe Blackman, and Hendrik Wade Bode, formally treated the problem of smoothing the data in fire-control by analogy with " the problem of separating a signal from interfering noise in communications systems . " In other words, it modeled the problem in terms of data and signal processing and thus heralded the coming of the Information Age.