ENH: Stop unstable lowess iterations #9220
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NumPy's guide.
I was running into some issues trying to interpolate between a lot of 0s and 1s similar to some of the old test cases and issues. I noticed that R just bails out if the MAD gets close to zero "since the algorithm is highly unstable in that case." This seems to close a few of the open lowess issue and (partially) fix the one I was having.
I removed one of the test cases that is no longer the behavior. I guess technically this is a breaking change, but the new behavior now matches R.
This partially fixes #7337, if you consider extrapolating a good fix. Only the frac=.3 test case spits out NaNs now. I'll have to go through that part, but that's probably for a different PR.