difference between movmean and movavg

What is the difference between movmean and movavg?

[Bruno Luong]

The respective docs seem to tell the differences.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

To name just a few differences,

1. movavg requires the Financial Toolbox while movmean does not
2. movavg can process Financial Toolbox data objects
3. movavg supports weighted averages and different moving average types
4. movmean supports asymmetric moving windows, while movavg doesn't seem to

[Stephen23]

5.

• MOVAVG Introduced before R2006a
• MOVMEAN Introduced in R2016a