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Re: there is NO seasonal temperature lag!

by Irv Bromberg :: Rate this Message:

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On 2009 Jun 25, at 18:52 , Irv Bromberg wrote:
It would be neat to try fitting an appropriate curve, it looks quasi-sinusoidal, although that is not a built-in feature of Excel, my macro would have to carry out the fit.

Irv adds:  A simple alternative would be to have the macro do a symmetrical moving average.  Excel's moving average trendlines are forward only, so they always lag behind the data.  A symmetrical moving average has the benefit of knowing the past and future, so can make each point the average of n points before and after itself, for lag-free smoothing.  Perhaps the value of n could be a user-specified setting.


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