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Arithmetic averaging: A versatile technique for smoothing and trend removal

Conference ·
OSTI ID:10115312
Arithmetic averaging is simple, stable, and can be very effective in attenuating the undesirable components in a complex signal, thereby providing smoothing or trend removal. An arithmetic average is easy to calculate. However, the resulting modifications to the data, in both the time and frequency domains, are not well understood by many experimentalists. This paper discusses the following aspects of averaging: (1) types of averages -- simple, cumulative, and moving; and (2) time and frequency domain effects of the averaging process.
Research Organization:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
10115312
Report Number(s):
SAND--93-3979C; CONF-940581--1; ON: DE94005274; BR: GB0103012
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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