Problem 44844. Moving average

Created by Jared Oliphant

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 1 Nov 2020

Tip: the x vector is useless, and the standard function movmean will not help since we have a window of variable size.

Christian Schröder on 24 Nov 2022

The problem statement is not very clear, but what this problem is asking you to do is compute a moving average where the desired window size is w elements on either side, and where the window shrinks near the edges of the input vector (while staying symmetric) in order to avoid extending beyond the endpoints of said vector.

Also, as @Rafael observed, the vector x is unnecessary and can be ignored; you're only working with y (and w).

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