RE: [HACKERS] Standard Deviation function. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stupor Genius
Subject RE: [HACKERS] Standard Deviation function.
Date
Msg-id 000001bd9022$48ee3360$ad99accf@darren
Whole thread Raw
In response to Standard Deviation function.  (Chris Albertson <chris@topdog.pas1.logicon.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Standard Deviation function.
List pgsql-hackers
> I really need a Standard Deviation aggregate function...
>
> I know about the man pages for "create aggregate" and "create
> function".  Is there something else I should look at?
>
> It seems kind of hard to do with only two state functions unless
> I "cheat".  I need to keep three values, Count, Sum, and Sum of
> Squares.
>
> Any hints or advice??

I thought about this a long time ago and had an idea but never
got around to trying to implement it.  I was going to have some
functions that worked on a structure of two doubles to track
the sum and square instead of using only one simple type.

darrenk

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Chris Albertson
Date:
Subject: Standard Deviation function.
Next
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Standard Deviation function.