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### How to solve this Laplace integral for an averaging function in an iterative numerical (finite difference) model?

I am trying to implement a mathematical model for vibrational damping described in this article. They provide an equation for damping force ($F$) as a function of: a spring constant ($k$) a damping ...
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### Is it possible to specify number of taps and cutoff frequency independently?

When specifying the properties of a moving average filter, is it possible to specify the number of taps and the cutoff frequency? My guess is no since taps (the number of samples in a moving average ...
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### Moving average filter output magnitude in simulink

I was using the Moving average filter provided by simulink. I set the window length equal to 31 samples and i was using a fixed step solver with a step size of $\frac{1}{(50\times24)}$. I used a unit ...
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### Spatial moving average in array antenna processing

In array processing the theoretical spatial response of the array is calculated by doing DFT on sensor locations for some assumed wave number (1/wavelength). The figures below shows the sensor ...
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### Difference between the average operation and the application of the equivalent LPF

I would be glad if someone could answer my question. I have a bit stream of data and I want to extract the low frequency component. When post processing the data I can calculate the average value over ...
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### Filtering Angular Measurements

I am trying to apply a filter to reduce noise in angular measurements. Since the data comes with noise, the filter needs to be able to handle measurements that are not smoothly progressing; for ...
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### How to filter a signal using a bandpass filter consisted of two moving average filters?

I want to filter a PPG signal on a microcontroller. I have limited memory and a was searching for low computational methods. I found the work of Kazuhiro Taniguchi, Earable POCER: Development of a ...
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### moving average rounding error analysis

I have implemented a moving average, similar to the Hogenauer Filter, with a reduced number of computation operations. I expect the expected error to behave as the random walk and its STD to be of ...
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### How to determine windows size of moving average filter

I've recorded acceleration signal data using an accelerometer attached to vehicle , and I want to calculate the displacement of signal data using double integration or any other methods. I read many ...
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### Is it applicable to implement a cascaded moving average filter with variable window on real-time?

I am using a 3-pass cascaded moving average filter for smoothing noisy data. I applied some optimization algorithms to determine the optimal length of the MAF window. For different amplitudes of data ...
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### Moving Average FIR filter coefficients

I am trying to use a FIR filter making software to create a moving average filter and I'm a little confused on what I should put in the coefficients part? I read that the coefficients are always 1 for ...
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### Coefficient weights of Simple Moving Average (SMA) on SMA

A simple moving average (SMA: arithmetic mean) is a low-pass FIR-filter. When you cascade 2 SMA's with a window of length $n$, so when you apply the second SMA on the output of the first SMA, and you ...
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### Group delay plot of a Moving average filter

I am implementing the moving average filter in Matlab. Using fvtool on this filter, gave the following output curve, is this group delay curve correct? Edit: My confusion is regarding the values of ...
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### Moving Average Filter's Magnitude Response

I am working on filtering of data using the Moving average filter in MATLAB. My data is recorded temperature values on the Y-axis and Time(in seconds) on the X-axis (I'm getting the magnitude response ...
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### ARMA Filter Output Stationary and set up?

I have questions regarding ARMA Filters. Is the output of a ARMA Filter stationary or just wide sense stationary? I do know that you can obtain an ARMA filter by connecting an MA filter with an AR ...
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### Box filter with non integer length

I'm trying to model a sensor system that has an averaging behaviour. The frequency response is almost identical to a box filter and looks roughly like this: Transferring this into a discrete time ...
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### Determining Loss of Information by Taking Average (Mean of Signal)

So basically information is defined by expected value of Shannon's information i.e. Entropy. I am curious how much information is lost if we simply take the average of the sample given to us. I am ...
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### Moving average filter magnitude attenuation

I am dealing with a moving average filter which filters power system signals to rid them of noise or harmonics etc. The fundamental or useful component of these signals is centered around 50 Hz or 60 ...
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### Amplitude reduction of Simple Moving Average on sinusoid

When a -causal/non-centered- simple moving average filter (arithmetic mean) with length $n$, is applied to a sinusoidal curve with period $p$, and the resulting curve is compared to the original input ...
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### Noise Reduction Moving Average FIR

I read that the noise reduction of a moving average FIR can be expressed as the square root of N where N is the length of the filter. How do you prove? I can't quite get it.
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### How to approximate a moving RMS without iterating over N samples for each required output?

I have a signal with a sampling rate of F Hertz. From it I want to produce an RMS signal, also with F samples per second with a window size of N samples. Using a standard moving RMS algorithm I must ...
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### Impulse Response of a Moving Average System

According to Discrete Time Signal Processing by Al Oppenheim 3rd Edition, the impulse response of a moving average filter is as below My question is that shouldn't h[n] be having the dirac delta ...
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### Magnitude and phase response and cut-off frequency of a moving average filter

The frequency response of a typical moving average filter of length $N$ is given by $H(\omega)=\frac{1}{N}\frac{\sin(\omega N/2) e^{-j \omega ((N-1)/2)}}{\sin(\omega/2)}$. Firstly, isn't the cut off ...
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### temporal smoothing: FWHM of Gaussian kernel vs. window length of moving average

Suppose in one case I convolve Gaussian kernel with FWHM=10 samples. I would like to compare the result with moving average. My question: should I take the moving average window also 10 samples? In ...
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### Is it correct to call a Savitsky-Golay filter of degree 0 a simple moving average?

I had this question after seeing that polynomial regressions fit polynomial functions of different degrees to a time-series, since the mean of a time series is a constant and that a constant is also a ...
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### Denoising a signal

I'm starting hydraulic experiments, where I'd have to measure velocity in an unsteady flow with a device called Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter. In DSP terms, I'd have a nonstationary signal in a shape ...
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### Sampling multiple sensors at different rates

I have a question regarding how best to sample data from multiple sensors when they are all updating at different/changing rates. I am new to data acquisition so please bear with me. For my Master's ...
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### How to make the impulse response sparse? How does one know that the channel is sparse?

I am new to sparse channel estimation algorithms and reading research articles. One such paper is blind sparse channel estimation using a modification of the BOMP technique titled, "Blind Acoustic ...
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### Should I use window or any filtering to average my data?

I have 80 seconds of data and I have to score my data by taking the average or median (or some other method) every 10 seconds. What's the best way to do this ? Should I just use a regular rectangular ...
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### Confusion regarding model order and lags

I have similar questions as the one asked in these posts: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47083890/fir-filter-length-is-the-intercept-included-as-a-coefficient-matlab/47085339?noredirect=1#...
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### Underdetermined deconvolution of windowed output

Consider a discrete 'blurred' output $h[t]$ given by the convolution of filter $f[t]$ and signal $g[t]$. This question considers recovering $g[t]$ from a window (subset) of $h[t]$. This causes the ...
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### Model Validation After Estimation for System Identification Task (Assistance with MATLAB Code)

QUESTION: I want to determine how well the estimated model fits to the future new data. How do I validate the estimated model...what is the procedure? After system identification, how to do model ...
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### Lowpass : What is wrong with average filtering?

The question is : What is wrong with averaging as low pass filter ? The details : I want to lowpass filter a signal to downsample it. The constraints are : I have no RAM available and I work in ...
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### Why dft of moving average impulse response has 0 angle

I wanted to visualise angle and magnitude of moving average DFT. I used python3 for that: ...
Suppose we want to approximate the instantaneous power $z(n) = |y(n)|^2$ of the discrete-time signal $y(n)$, where $y(n)$ is the result of filtering $x(n)$ with a given window $h(n)$, \$y(n) = x(n) \...