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Moving Average with Sliding Window
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Moving Average with Sliding Window

MediumPython

Problem

Write a program to calculate the moving average of a metric with a sliding window for Datadog metrics.

Implement moving_average(values, window_size), where values is a non-empty list of numeric metric values and window_size is a positive integer. Return a list containing the average of every complete contiguous window, from left to right.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(values) <= 1000
  • 1 <= window_size <= len(values)
  • -10^9 <= values[i] <= 10^9
  • Values may be integers or floating-point numbers

Function Signature

def moving_average(values, window_size):
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