This decomposition method improved on the SEATS and X11 decomposition methods by generalizing how seasonality is handled. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this time-series decomposition method, named for two of the key components in the decomposition and the smoothing method it uses.
ANSWER: STL decomposition [or Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess]
[10e] The STL, or Standard Template Library, collects important templates in this programming language. This object-oriented language is partially named for an operator that increments its operand by 1.
ANSWER: C++ [reject “C”]
[10m] The STL file format describes a 3D surface to which this process has been performed. One method of performing this process given a set of discrete points creates the dual graph of the set’s Voronoi diagram.
ANSWER: triangulation [accept Delaunay triangulation; prompt on answers describing the division of a surface or polygon into a mesh of triangles]
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