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AskSQLTeam
Ask SQLTeam Question
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 Posted - 05/27/2002 : 11:40:15
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| Ales Spetic submitted "While SQL was never designed to be a statistics package, the language is quite versatile and holds a lot of hidden potential when it comes to calculating statistics. If you need a fast, easy-to-use tool for quick analysis of an existing data set, then the concepts presented in this article may prove quite helpful. The text covers topics like: Means, Modes, Medians Standard deviations, Variances, Standard errors. Confidence intervals, Correlations, Moving averages, Weighted moving averages." Article Link. |
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jsmith8858
Dr. Cross Join
USA
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Posted - 11/08/2002 : 15:42:25
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Here's any easier way to get a median (not the financial median, however):
SELECT x.Value AS median
FROM Vals AS x, Vals AS y
GROUP BY x.Value
HAVING SUM(SIGN(x.Value-y.Value)) IN (1,0)
Change the " IN (1,0)" to a -1 to get the lower value if there is an even # of values. Currently, the higher # is returned.
Basically, we are saying compare each number to all possible numbers, and get a adds values of 1,0 or -1 if the first number is less, equal or higher than the second. The number that returns 0 is right in the middle ... If there is no middle, a -1 or 1 is returned.
To get the financial median, you need to encapsulate the results of the above into a subquery, allow for not just (-1,0) but all three (-1,0,1) and then take the AVG of the values returned.
That is,
SELECT Avg(Median) as Median FROM
(
SELECT x.Value AS median
FROM Vals AS x, Vals AS y
GROUP BY x.Value
HAVING SUM(SIGN(x.Value-y.Value)) IN (1,0,-1)
)
That should do the trick. Let me know what y'all think.
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kbiel
Starting Member
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 16:33:22
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quote:
Originally posted by jsmith8858
Here's any easier way to get a median (not the financial median, however):
SELECT x.Value AS median
FROM Vals AS x, Vals AS y
GROUP BY x.Value
HAVING SUM(SIGN(x.Value-y.Value)) IN (1,0)
That should do the trick. Let me know what y'all think.
It's a neat trick, but it does not work for non-unique values approaching the median. |
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kbiel
Starting Member
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Posted - 07/01/2005 : 17:52:38
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quote:
Originally posted by kbiel
quote:
Originally posted by jsmith8858
That should do the trick. Let me know what y'all think.
It's a neat trick, but it does not work for non-unique values approaching the median.
This should work:
DECLARE @Vals TABLE ( Value INT, i INT identity(1,1) )
INSERT INTO @Vals
SELECT
SomeValueColumn
FROM
SomeTable
ORDER BY
SomeValueColumn ASC
SELECT
AVG(Value)
FROM
@Vals
WHERE
i = (SELECT (MAX(i) + 1) / 2 + (MAX(i) + 1) % 2 FROM @Vals)
OR
i = (SELECT (MAX(i) + 1) / 2 FROM @Vals)
That will select the financial median. To select only the middle upper value on an even number of records, then use the following WHERE clause:
WHERE
i = (SELECT (MAX(i) + 1) / 2 + (MAX(i) + 1) % 2 FROM @Vals)
To select only the middle lower value on an even number of records then use this WHERE clause:
WHERE
i = (SELECT MAX(i) / 2 + MAX(i) % 2 FROM @Vals)
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Article: Statistics in SQL (Sample Chapter)
