June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
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Smoothing the data using moving averages
One simple technique used to analyze time series involves simple and exponential moving averages. Both simple moving average and exponential moving average are ways in which we can smooth out the random noise in the series and observe cycles and trends.