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back·fit

 (băk′fĭt′)
tr.v. back·fit·ted or back·fit, back·fit·ting, back·fits
To retrofit.
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backfit

(ˈbækˌfɪt)
vb (tr)
to retrofit, overhaul, esp an industrial plant
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back•fit

(ˈbækˌfɪt)

v.t. -fit -fit•ted, -fit•ting.
to retrofit.
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The penalized spline estimator of [b.sub.1], ..., [b.sub.d] can be obtained using a backfitting algorithm(Hastie and Tibshirani [30]).
Direct determination of smoothing parameter for penalized spline regression
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