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Definition
Statistical technique for removal of short term irregularities in a time-series data to improve the accuracy of forecasts. It uses moving averages, or fits a curve to the plotted data points on a graph, and is a much simpler (although cruder) method than exponential smoothing.
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smoothing is in the Statistics, Mathematics, & Analysis subject.
smoothing appears in these other terms: adaptive exponential smoothing, exponential smoothing, smoothing demand
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