Pasko1 -

If your data are monthly time sequence observations, and if you wanted a
trend line for subsequent seasonal analysis, you would use a moving average
with period of 12. In Excel, you could create a Line chart and add a moving
average trend line. Or, you could perform the same calculations on a
worksheet using the AVERAGE worksheet function.

- Mike
www.mikemiddleton.com

"Pasko1" wrote in message
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I have a range of numbers listed below. I want to smooth them out to be
closer to the average of 423,000. I would like to set a minumum of
350,000
and a maximum of 575,000 or thereabouts. Which statistical function(s)
should I use?

507,946
713,695
413,505
256,822
277,154
794,495
679,093
178,376
308,652
449,225
698,341
363,686
375,933
264,610
498,582
310,760
342,731
620,156
355,224
340,426
247,197
295,597
291,706
369,606
462,799
583,680