The phrase "average of the preceding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are calculating the average of a set of values that have been mentioned before.
Example: "To find the average of the preceding numbers, add them together and divide by the total count."
Alternatives: "mean of the previous" or "average of the prior".
Still, the increase was smaller than last year, when the post-Thanksgiving shopping was up 27percentt from the average of the preceding days.
But others said that the Case-Shiller index showed an increase only because each report is an average of the preceding three months, meaning the strong August market was still a component of the October report.
(d) The final installment on any loan shall not be in excess of two times the average of the preceding installments, except that on a construction loan the final installment may be for an amount not in excess of 5percentt of the original principal amount of the loan.
Metallica sales the week before Christmas have been from 48.8% to 71.1% higher than the average of the preceding three weeks (64.8% in 2008; 71.1% in 2009; 48.8% in 2010; and 53.6% in 2011).
The mean annual wage for a typical urban Chinese employee grew by a blistering 18.72% in 2007, to 24,932 yuan ($3,556.63), or 99.32 yuan ($14.17) per day, the National Bureau of Statistics said, adding that it was the fastest growth in six years and higher than the 14% on average of the preceding six years.
A comparison of the proposed method with historic average method (predicted flow in the given time interval is the average of the preceding 3 days flow in the same time interval) and naive method (flow today equals flow yesterday in the same time interval) was attempted and the results are shown in Fig. 4.
Overall, the total woodland evapotranspiration (Etotal) exceeded present-year rainfall (359 mm vs. 265 mm) but was equal to average rainfall of the preceding 10 years, suggesting long-term balance in water supply and Etotal in this system.
Stream fluxes of dissolved inorganic N (DIN) were calculated using daily discharge and weekly concentrations, using the average concentration of the preceding and following measurements for the intervening days.
The output, however, goes to a power meter that determines the average power, W T, in the signal over time period T. A feedback loop then determines the gain for the next T-second period on the basis of the average power of the preceding T-second period, where the gain, k, is equal to W -q, where q is under top-down control.
According to author and former Oxford rower, the Oxford trial eights were "of a better average than those of the preceding years" and after they arrived at Putney, the Dark Blue crew "improved rapidly up to the day of the race".
We also performed sensitivity analyses for residential mobility by restricting analyses to subjects not moving residence in the preceding 2, 5, and 10 years, and checked the time window of exposure by using the average NO2 exposure of the preceding 10 years for a subset of 2,402 individuals with information on residential history.
