{{alias}}( W ) Returns an accumulator function which incrementally computes a moving product. The `W` parameter defines the number of values over which to compute the moving product. If provided a value, the accumulator function returns an updated moving product. If not provided a value, the accumulator function returns the current moving product. As `W` values are needed to fill the window buffer, the first `W-1` returned values are calculated from smaller sample sizes. Until the window is full, each returned value is calculated from all provided values. For accumulations over large windows or accumulations of large numbers, care should be taken to prevent overflow. Note, however, that overflow/underflow may be transient, as the accumulator does not use a double-precision floating-point number to store an accumulated product. Instead, the accumulator splits an accumulated product into a normalized fraction and exponent and updates each component separately. Doing so guards against a loss in precision. Parameters ---------- W: integer Window size. Returns ------- acc: Function Accumulator function. Examples -------- > var accumulator = {{alias}}( 3 ); > var p = accumulator() null > p = accumulator( 2.0 ) 2.0 > p = accumulator( -5.0 ) -10.0 > p = accumulator( 3.0 ) -30.0 > p = accumulator( 5.0 ) -75.0 > p = accumulator() -75.0 See Also --------