Delayed-Average

By Kardi Teknomo, PhD.

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Delayed average or (in short dag ) average with delay is defined as arithmetic mean of the sequence up to ,

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Diagram of delayed-average

The concept of delayed average is very useful when we are dealing with the sequence of measurement that grows over time. As the length of sequence is increasing by time, sometimes we would like to know the time average up to some time before the latest measurement. Delay must be positive integer. When , the delayed average is simply the average itself. If , we are dealing with prediction, that we will address in later chapter. Of course, is not always represents the length of full sequence. is simply the total number of elements in our consideration that we want to take the average, counted from the beginning of the sequence.

Example

We have sequence . Let the delay , and , then

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