deviation

filter out deviating record with sql

We have this set of data that we need to get the average of a column. a select avg(x) from y does the trick. However we need a more accurate figure. I figured that there must be a way of filtering records that has either too high or too low values(spikes) so that we can exclude them in calculating the average. ...

C# Why are timer frequencies extremely off?

Both System.Timers.Timer and System.Threading.Timer fire at intervals that are considerable different from the requested ones. For example: new System.Timers.Timer(1000d / 20); yields a timer that fires 16 times per second, not 20. To be sure that there are no side-effects from too long event handlers, I wrote this little test progra...

Calculating moving average/stdev in SAS?

Hye guys, I included a screenshot to help clarify my problem: http://i40.tinypic.com/mcrnmv.jpg. I'm trying to calculate some kind of moving average and moving standard deviation. The thing is I want to calculate the coefficients of variation (stdev/avg) for the actual value. Normally this is done by calculating the stdev and avg for ...