Hello, I have a worksheet that has all weekday dates in column 1 and
values in column 2. I want to create a 30-day moving average based on
the last (non-zero) value in the column 2. Since every month has a
different amount of days, I want it to search the date that has the
last value (since I don't get a chance to update it daily) and go back
thirsty days from that date and give an average of all the column 2
values skipping and values that are null or zero.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Gimi


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Assume your last row is 1000
Then your average of the value in the second column for the last 30 days
would be:

=Average(Offset(B1000,0,0,-30,1))


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Hello, I have a worksheet that has all weekday dates in column 1 and
values in column 2. I want to create a 30-day moving average based on
the last (non-zero) value in the column 2. Since every month has a
different amount of days, I want it to search the date that has the
last value (since I don't get a chance to update it daily) and go back
thirsty days from that date and give an average of all the column 2
values skipping and values that are null or zero.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Gimi


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Someone will probably have something better. However, here is a
possibility in the meantime.

I'm assuming Row 1 has your titles and Column A refers to your Column 1
and Column B to Column 2.

I'd put the following function in Column C: (Find the last date with a
value)
=A2 (For Cell C2)
=IF(B3<0,A3,C2) (For the rest)

I'd put the following function in Column D:
=(SUMIF($A$2:A2,"<="&C2,$B$2:B2)-SUMIF($A$2:A2,"<"&C2-29,$B$2:B2)) /
(COUNTIF($A$2:A2,"<="&C2)-COUNTIF($A$2:A2,"<"&C2-29))

If this isn't what you meant, you'll have to explain some more.

Scott

gimiv Wrote:
Hello, I have a worksheet that has all weekday dates in column 1 and
values in column 2. I want to create a 30-day moving average based on
the last (non-zero) value in the column 2. Since every month has a
different amount of days, I want it to search the date that has the
last value (since I don't get a chance to update it daily) and go back
thirsty days from that date and give an average of all the column 2
values skipping and values that are null or zero.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Gimi


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gimiv wrote:
Hello, I have a worksheet that has all weekday dates in column 1 and
values in column 2. I want to create a 30-day moving average based on
the last (non-zero) value in the column 2. Since every month has a
different amount of days, I want it to search the date that has the
last value (since I don't get a chance to update it daily) and go back
thirsty days from that date and give an average of all the column 2
values skipping and values that are null or zero.

The solution might be a lot simpler than you might think. But your
description leaves me with several questions, so I am not sure. Does
the following paradigm work for you?

Assume your data starts in B2. The first 30 days of data are in
B2:B31, some cells of which might be zero presumably because you "did
not get a chance to update it daily". It appears that you want the
following average, entered into C31 perhaps:

=sumif(B2:B31,"<0") / countif(B2:B31,"<0")

If you copy that down the column, the range will automatically be a
moving 30-day period; for example, B3:B32, B4:B33, etc. Thus, it
creates a trailing simple moving average, ignoring cells with zero.

wrote:
gimiv wrote:
values skipping and values that are null or zero.
[....]
=sumif(B2:B31,"<0") / countif(B2:B31,"<0")

I just realized that you said skipping cells that are zero __or_null__.
In that case, you might want:

=sumif(B2:B31,"<0") / (counta(B2:B31) - countif(B2:B31,"=0"))

However, so far none of these have worked. More specifically, My moving
average formula will reside on another worksheet and should change
every time I add a new row. I want to avoid a static calculation that I
have to re-reference every time.

Thanks again,

Gimiv


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gimiv Wrote:
However, so far none of these have worked. More specifically, My moving
average formula will reside on another worksheet and should change
every time I add a new row. I want to avoid a static calculation that I
have to re-reference every time.

Thanks again,

Gimiv

On the sheet with the data (or elsewhere, depends on what you want),
put the following:

D1: Last Date
D2: =DMAX(A:B,"Date",E1:E2)

E1: Value
E2: 0

F1: Date
F2: ="<="&D2

G1: Date
G2: =""&D2-30

H1: 30-Day Average
H2: =DAVERAGE(A:B,"Value",E1:G2)

Then, on the sheet you want to know the 30-Day Average, just reference
this sheet's H2 cell.

Scott


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In article ,
gimiv wrote:

However, so far none of these have worked.

1) Did you confirm the formula with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER.

2) Are you receiving an error message or an incorrect result? If the
former, what type of error value are you getting?

More specifically, My moving
average formula will reside on another worksheet and should change
every time I add a new row. I want to avoid a static calculation that I
have to re-reference every time.

For this you can use a dynamic named range. Do you need help with this?

For this you can use a dynamic named range. Do you need help with this?

Inserting it into an OFFSET in your equation? yes. = ) thanks again for
your help guys.


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Assuming that Column B contains the data, try...

=AVERAGE(IF(ROW(B2:B1000)=LARGE(IF(B2:B1000,ROW(B 2:B1000)),30),IF(B2:B10
00,B2:B1000)))

....confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER.

Hope this helps!

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gimiv wrote:

Hello, I have a worksheet that has all weekday dates in column 1 and
values in column 2. I want to create a 30-day moving average based on
the last (non-zero) value in the column 2. Since every month has a
different amount of days, I want it to search the date that has the
last value (since I don't get a chance to update it daily) and go back
thirsty days from that date and give an average of all the column 2
values skipping and values that are null or zero.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Gimi