Activity Overview
This task asks students to create a template for ongoing use in attempting smoothing problems. The data is saved and able to be plotted for further analysis.
Objectives
- Construction of a robust template for smoothing of time series plots
- Comparison of the effect of mean and median based smoothing, and of the number of points used for smoothing
- Consideration of ‘centered’ methods of smoothing
Vocabulary
- moving mean & median smoothing
- time series data
About the Lesson
This task asks students to create a template for ongoing use in attempting smoothing problems. The data is saved and able to be plotted for further analysis.