Ah, I see. This is a cool technique. I don't suppose it's easy enough
to do in SQL? Something to think about I guess. :)

-Raymond

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:33:42 -0400, Jerry Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To smooth a curve, you can take a rolling average (by taking the average of the data point and a couple of datapoints adjacent)
>
> for example
>
> 3day - take the day before, the day, and the day after, and average them (db+d+da)/3
>
>         1day    3day    5day
>
> s       2
> m       2       1.66
> t       1       1.66    1.8
> w       2       1.66    2.0
> t       2       2.33    2.2
> f       3       2.66    2.8
> s       3       3.33    3.0
> s       4       3.33    3.2
> m       3       3.33    5.4
> t       3       6.66    5.4
> w       14      10      5.0
> t       3       6.33    5.0
> f       2       2.66    4.8
> s       3       2.33
> s       2
>
> You'll see that the 5 day is mush smoother a curve than the 3day, which is smoother than the spiky day version.
>
> Does this help?
> Jerry Johnson
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/12/04 12:06PM >>>
> What do you mean by moving average? Just show the last N days in a
> range you mean? (That actually would help me.)
>
>
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