When I was a freshman in college, there were two “bird” courses that were considered not only easy but actually fun to take. One was “The Hi-Fidelity of Physics”, where I saw one of the very first CD players ever made (1981?). The other course was “The Uses and Abuses of Statistics”. This course was […]
A Multiple Moving Average, or MMA, is a collection of Moving Averages (MAs), plotted together to simultaneously show short- and long-term trends. As with MAs, MMAs can be used to detect trends in any type of real-world data. They’re used in the stock market, but I use them to analyze my website and weblog metrics […]
A Moving Average, or MA, is an important metric (measure) in statistical analysis of real-world data. MAs are actually used to analyze stocks and indexes in the stock market. In fact, I used MMAs (Multiple Moving Averages) in 2000 to correctly predict 3 of 4 significant stock market turns. But you can also use MAs […]
Besides sums, a lot of website/ weblog analysis requires averaging a set of values and looking for patterns over time. Here’s a quick review of the notation used to represent averages on this weblog. Please review the notation for sums, if you haven’t already done so. The information below builds on that review.
Terms:
Average = the […]
Much of the analysis that a blogger or webmaster has to do on their web traffic and revenues depends on summing a set of numbers, and sometimes averaging the sum. Just as a point of review, I’d like to go over the basics of sums, and some of the notations that are used.
Terms:
Data set = […]
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