Filter - smooth (calculating the moving average along a vector)
 function [vectorout]=moving_average(vectorin,eFave)
  Author: Adrián Lara-Quintanilla
  Date:   12/03/2013
  
  This function calculates a moving average along a vector. "eFave" is the
  number of elements around the element in the input vector "vectorin" used
  to calculate the averaged value in "vectorout". The values at the
  beginning and at the end of "vectorin" that could not be calculated with
  and average of "eFave" elements are calculated as an average of the
  remaining values at the beginning or at the end of "vectorin".
  Note: "eFave" should be an odd number. If not, '1' is added to its value.
  
  Example: vectorin=[1 2 5 4 8 9] and eFave=4.
  eFave->5, vector out=[x1 x2 4 5.6 x5 x6], note that x3 and x4 can be
  calculated as a mean of the 5 elements (including themselves) around
  them. Because this can not be applied on x1,x2,x5,x6, and the goal is to
  smooth the series, x1=1, x2=mean(1 and 2), x3=mean(8 and 9)
  and x4=9
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Adrian Lara-Quintanilla (2025). Filter - smooth (calculating the moving average along a vector) (https://se.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/40758-filter-smooth-calculating-the-moving-average-along-a-vector), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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