I don't know about -loess-. That would presumably
a privately available user-written analogue of -lowess-. 
Be that as it may, -lowess- doesn't support confidence 
bands. Is anyone aware that they are even defined in the literature?
Nick 
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Paswel Phiri Marenya
> How do I get confidence bands around my loess graphs? i.e
> 
> loess y x (what else do I need to do to show confidence band 
> on the plot?)
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