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Re: help for time series basic operations

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• Subject: [mg46081] Re: [mg46046] help for time series basic operations
• From: Hugh Walker <hwalker at gvtc.com>
• Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 04:03:00 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 05:20 PM, paolo wrote:

> I am a quantitative analyst and for the first time i am using 
> Mathematica. So, I
> am sorry if my question seem "very easy (almost stupid)" but i need 
> some helps
> to begin to understand Mathematica
>
> I have a time series
> a:=[a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4,...a_n]
> how can i do to subtract each element for the previous one?:
>
> b:=[a_2 - a_1, a_3 - a_2, a_4 - a_3,.....,a_n - a_n-1]
>
> Thanks
>
> Paolo Tarpanelli

Paolo:

Here is one way. Let lst be the list in question, then the "difference 
list" is

lstSub = Drop[(RotateLeft[lst] - lst), -1]

Cheers,

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Hugh Walker
Gnarly Oaks