Best Practise comparing measure with historic data?

Hello everyone,
we are currently trying to compare a measure for a certain week with the same measure of the weeks before. To make a condition such as: "If number of alerts in the 3 previous weeks > 100 then 1 else 0 [for this specific week]".
However we are struggling because it seems that Measures and Dimensions are strictly separated from each other. "number of alerts" would be a measure, "week" would be a dimension. When creating a measure only other measures are available in the formula creator, when creating a dimension only other dimensions are available. In our understanding we would have a formula with both measures and dimensions in it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Marvin

thank you for your fast reply. That's a good thought, however I currently don't see a possibility for aggregations in the formula of a dimension. Hence the logic "if number of alerts in the previous 3 weeks > 100 then 1 else 0" still struggles me.
The values in my table are on the alert-level but for my measure I have to aggregate them at the level of the object, where the alert occurred (a dimension).

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