ExponentialMovingAverage[list,α]
gives the exponential moving average of list with smoothing constant α.


ExponentialMovingAverage
ExponentialMovingAverage[list,α]
gives the exponential moving average of list with smoothing constant α.
Details

- The smoothing constant α is typically a number between 0 and 1, but can be any expression.
- ExponentialMovingAverage[x,α] generates a list of results
in which
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- The output from ExponentialMovingAverage[list,α] has the same length as list.
- ExponentialMovingAverage handles both numerical and symbolic data.
- ExponentialMovingAverage works with SparseArray and TemporalData objects. »
Examples
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Scope (4)
Generalizations & Extensions (2)
Applications (3)
See Also
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History
Text
Wolfram Research (2007), ExponentialMovingAverage, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExponentialMovingAverage.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2007. "ExponentialMovingAverage." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExponentialMovingAverage.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2007). ExponentialMovingAverage. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExponentialMovingAverage.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_exponentialmovingaverage, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ExponentialMovingAverage}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExponentialMovingAverage.html}", note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_exponentialmovingaverage, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ExponentialMovingAverage}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ExponentialMovingAverage.html}, note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}