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Final note: the mathematics of smoothing

   

In this appendix, we present some more mathematical details for the smoothing techniques presented above. This appendix has been written for readers who are interested in the derivations of the parameter estimation formulae. To give a self-contained presentation, it was necessary to repeat parts from the previous sections.






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