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Thanks for the comment. I got my answer for the 1st question. For the 2nd one, can you please elaborate a bit and mention what does the two terms on right hand side mean? Is is possible if you can add a visual graph that exhibits this behaviour?
Thanks for the comment but this does not answer my question of how a window of 5 corresponds to a lag of 3. Also, I believe you and this Wikipedia section, are talking about Moving Average (MA) model. I am referring to the Moving Average Smoothing model which has no connection to the MA model.
I didn't realize the interpretation is going to be different. Btw, how safe is it to build a model with assumption violated apart from becoming less generalized?