Lab No.

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Title: To solve numerical on Moving Average using simple Excel
Introduction:
In statistics, a moving average (rolling average or running average) is a calculation to analyze data points by
creating series of averages of different subsets of the full data set. It is also called a moving mean (MM) or rolling
mean and is a type of finite impulse response filter. Variations include: simple, and cumulative,
or weighted forms (described below). Given a series of numbers and a fixed subset size, the first element of the
moving average is obtained by taking the average of the initial fixed subset of the number series. Then the
subset is modified by "shifting forward"; that is, excluding the first number of the series and including the next
number following the original subset in the series. This creates a new subset of numbers, which is averaged.
This process is repeated over the entire data series. The plot line connecting all the (fixed) averages is the moving
average. A moving average is a set of numbers, each of which is the average of the corresponding subset of a
larger set of datum points. A moving average may also use unequal weights for each datum value in the subset
to emphasize particular values in the subset.

Objective:
The objective of this lab to solve numerical on Moving Average related to Forecasting using simple Excel. Then
to draw graph for analysis of that collected data of a specific situation.

Procedure:
Example No.1 This example teaches you how to calculate the moving average of a time series in Excel. A moving
average is used to smooth out irregularities (peaks and valleys) to easily recognize trends.

1. First open excel sheet then put data in excel sheet as given below
2. Now enter formula to find moving average forecast with round function as

3. Then Applied to all cells of moving average forecast and got the result

4. After that draw graph for moving average forecast values

Example No. 2 Here using moving average of three month
1. For this example again entered given data of the required result

2. Now apply formula to find moving average forecast values as

3. Then apply to all cells of moving average forecast and got the required result
 4. After that draw graph for moving average forecast values

Example No. 3 Again it is used three month moving average

1. First of all entered data of given numerical as

2. Now apply formula to find moving average forecast values

 3. Then apply to all cells of moving average forecast and got required result

4. After that draw graph for obtained values

Conclusion:
It is concluded that moving average is very helpful technique to find the forecast for specific period of time. It
take less time in calculation for smoothing values of given data.

Summary:
In this the aim is to solve numerical on moving average forecast where simple is used to find the solution of
those numerical. So first moving average is introduced that in statistics, a moving average (rolling average or running
average) is a calculation to analyze data points by creating series of averages of different subsets of the full data set. It is
also called a moving mean (MM) or rolling mean and is a type of finite impulse response filter. Then three is solved one
by one and got required results.