Calculating Rolling Average Using AVG(COLLECT())?

saltyblueocean

Hi, 

I am attempting to create a rolling average to replicate a "trend line" one might see in excel graph. Having trouble visualizing the formula I might use, but landed on AVG(COLLECT()) as a plausible option. Hoping to poll the group. I've attached a photo of the sheet.

Essentially I want an average of all preceding months. so the Rolling average of January would just be the "TOTAL PLANT INDEX" (column header = Number of Wild Yeast Samples) but the average of February would be (January+February/2), March would be (January+February+March/3)... and so on. I continue to trip up every time I try. Can't even get good old fashioned average to work since it averages the children as well and ultimately messes up the number, just want to look at the parents!

Perhaps a better bet would be a metric sheet and cell linking? That feels like a step I don't need to take though.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

 

 

Paul Newcome

Try something like this...

 

=AVG(COLLECT([Column to Average]:[Column to Average], Month:Month, @cell <= MONTH(TODAY())))