October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
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English
A successive difference means the difference between the successive observations. For time series y, the successive difference will be (y2-y1), (y3-y2), (y4-y3).
The moving average is used to understand the direction of the current trend.
The moving average will smooth the data if there is a variation in consecutive points. It will smoothen the curve on the base of the average.
R does not have any direct implementation of the moving average, but zoo and the forecast package provides the various functions to find the moving average.
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