Re: [GENERAL] Statistics with PostgreSQL

2005-03-20 Thread Brent Wood
> Mean is just sum(col)/count(col) You can also just use avg(col). Either way, be careful because nulls may not be treated as you want for such calculations. The stats package R can access Postgres databases, and can be used for robust statistical analyses of the data. See: http://sourceforge

Re: [GENERAL] Statistics with PostgreSQL

2005-03-18 Thread Dann Corbit
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Re: [GENERAL] Statistics with PostgreSQL

2005-03-18 Thread Dann Corbit
Mean is just sum(col)/count(col) Mode can be calculated with having, max, count Median can be computed by sorting, using a cursor, and going to the middle. There are more efficient and better (more accurate) ways to do it, but those have to be implemented at a low level. Of course, since you have

Re: [GENERAL] Statistics with PostgreSQL

2005-03-18 Thread David Fetter
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 01:37:10PM -0500, Hrishikesh Deshmukh wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to simple statistics like mean/median/mode in > PostgreSQL. I have tables like PsetID | IntensityValue. I want to > find out mean (intensityValue) of some PsetID(s)?! > Any urls/pointers/books would