Finding Median Value
Mar 12, 2007
Hi,
I have looked all over the web to try to find some very basic / simple explanations of how to get a median value from a group of records in a table but with no luck
the problem i am having is that all the information i find is always centered around getting a median using every single row in the table. except i have groups of data in the table and want to work out a median for each group. the group is identified by 4 different columns (the 5th column is what i want to get the median on but for each group not the entire table) and i want to produce a resulting table that has 1 row for each group and therefore contains the median value for the group instead of the individual numbers that it currently has. e.g. the current table is like this
column1 column2 column3 column 4 column5(median of this)
value 1 value 2 value 3 value 4 1.2
value 1 value 2 value 3 value 4 1.0
value 1 value 2 value 3 value 4 1.5
value 2 value 3 value 4 value 5 0.2
value 2 value 3 value 4 value 5 0.4
etc...
and i need a query to get the results to show like this
column1 column2 column3 column 4 column5
value 1 value 2 value 3 value 4 1.0
value 2 value 3 value 4 value 5 0.3
etc...
This is driving me crazy and i will be very helpful if anyone can help
the statement i need to add it to is:
select pat_demid, pat_lastname, meas_gendate, meas_id, test_gendate, avg(srtot)as meansrtot, avg(sreff)as meansreff, avg(BFRaw)as BF_Rawmean, avg(BFTGV)as BF_TGVmean, count(srtot)as countsrtot, count(sreff)as countsreff
from bodyparametersf
where (srtot is not null) OR (sreff is not null)
group by pat_demid, pat_lastname, meas_gendate, meas_id, test_gendate
thanks very much
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Dec 7, 2002
I recently had to use my own little median technique again on a report here at work, and had posted it before, but wasn't sure if anyone had seen it. I have read Celko's and others techniques for generating a median and haven't seen one more efficent.
Does anyone have a better way they can think of? I think this bad boy is pretty short & efficient.
First, if you want to return the middle number or the higher one next to the middle if there is an even number:
SELECT x.Value AS median
FROM Vals x
CROSS JOIN Vals y
GROUP BY x.Value
HAVING SUM(SIGN(x.Value-y.Value)) IN (1,0)
Change the " IN (1,0)" to "IN (-1,0)" to get the lower value if there is an even # of values.
Basically, we are saying compare each number to all possible numbers, and add up values of 1,0 or -1 depending 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. There will never be a 0 and (-1 or 1) at the same time returned.
To get the financial median (avg of the 2 values middle values if there is an even number), 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 x
CROSS JOIN Vals y
GROUP BY x.Value
HAVING SUM(SIGN(x.Value-y.Value)) IN (1,0,-1)
) A
If there is an even number of values, the lower and higher middle ones are averaged. If there is an odd number, only the middle value is returned and averaged (which of course has no effect).
Most other techniques used several COUNT(*) subqueries which this one avoids.
Critique and enjoy!
- Jeff
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product (Product description numeric value)
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I have been at this for two days with no luck
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Aug 25, 2004
Hi All,
I have a table that of server names and their execution times that run in to hundreds of thousands of records. What i need is some SQL that gives me the median execution times for each of these different servers. At the moment i have some SQL that only gives me the median for all the records in the table not the median execution time for every different server name. For example my tables looks something like this;
ServerName | ExecTime
-----------------------
server1 | 0.07
server2 | 0.17
server1 | 0.27
server1 | 0.37
server2 | 0.47
server1 | 0.57
server1 | 0.67
server2 | 0.77
My SQL below gives me
ServerName | ExecTime
-----------------------
server1 | 0.37
Where as i want
ServerName | ExecTime
-----------------------
server1 | 0.37
server2 | 0.47
Here is my SQL, hope someone can modify it and thanks in advance.
Code:
SELECT DISTINCT instance, exec_time AS median
FROM (SELECT instance, exec_time
FROM (SELECT TOP 1 exec_time = exec_time * 1.0, instance
FROM (SELECT TOP 50 PERCENT exec_time, instance
FROM llserverlogs
ORDER BY exec_time) sub_a
ORDER BY 1 DESC) sub_1
UNION ALL
SELECT instance, exec_time
FROM (SELECT TOP 1 exec_time = exec_time * 1.0, instance
FROM (SELECT TOP 50 PERCENT exec_time, instance
FROM llserverlogs
ORDER BY exec_time DESC) sub_b
ORDER BY 1) sub_2)
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Jan 28, 2006
I've noticed that SQL Server (and other DBMSs I've looked at) doesn't seem to have a built-in function for finding the median of a range of numbers.
Gack!
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I have a long term need for a median function, I was wondering if anyone has or knows of some code or user defined functions somewhere that would do this. Ideally you could use it just liket the rest of the aggregate functions like AVG, etc.
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I need to calculate Median on each calculated result from the query below. There is one Median function available in SQL2K but it is not working. Can anyone help me in this regard.
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SELECT INS.Code As [code],INS.FinYr as [YEAR], ' ' As [FIRE BUSINESS], (INSRev.FI_NetPremLessIns / INSRev.FI_GrPremium) * 100 As [Rention Ratio],
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(INSRev.FI_AgencyCommPaid/INSRev.FI_AdjNetPremium)*100 As [Agency Commissioned to Adj. Net Premium]
FROM
(InsuranceGen As INS LEFT JOIN INSURANCEGen As INS1 ON (INS1.FinYr=INS.FinYr-1 AND INS.Code=INS1.Code))
LEFT JOIN INSRevGen as INSRev ON (INS.Code=INSRev.Code AND INS.FinYr=INSRev.FinYr) WHERE INS.Code IN ('ABC1','ABC2','ABC3') AND INS.FinYr=2005 ORDER BY INS.Code, INS.FinYr
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Thanks
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(
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WHERE Status = 'Sold'
AND SoldDate >= DATEADD(Year, -5, Convert(DateTime, Convert(Varchar(5),Month(GetDate())) + Convert(Varchar(5), '/1/') + Convert(Varchar(5), YEAR(GetDate()))))
AND SoldDate < DATEADD(Year, 0, Convert(DateTime, Convert(Varchar(5),Month(GetDate())) + Convert(Varchar(5), '/1/') + Convert(Varchar(5), YEAR(GetDate()))))
)
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FROM CompMedian
WHERE RowNum IN((Cnt + 1) / 2, (Cnt + 2) / 2)
GROUP BY Convert(Varchar(5),Year(SoldDate)) + Convert(Varchar(5), RIGHT(CAST(100+DATEPART(QQ,SoldDate) AS CHAR(3)), 2))
ORDER BY CompDate;
Now my client would like me to change the query so that each quarter would represent the median for the past 12 months ending with that quarter. I've been looking at this for hours and I'm at a loss. Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
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Thanks in advance,
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I used the Median() function in a calculated measure in a cube. All seemed well until one of my users, a statistician, pointed out that the displayed values were incorrect. I investigated this and finally built the simplest cube with three records and the displayed median does not make sense, i.e. equal what a median value should be.
The 3 records have loan amounts as a measure with these values: $102,500, $168,400, and $172,181 and loan number keys of 1, 2, and 3. That's it.
The median should be $168,400 since the number of items is odd and that is the middle value.
But the cube calculated measure displays $170,290.50. It appears to be taking the average of the middle row and the next value.
When I increase the number of records I get the same odd behavior but it not only alternates (of course) with odd and even (since they use different formulats for odd and even) but the odd wrong results alternate within themselves. The apparent calculations for 5 or 7 records are different compared to 3, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 records. The first set seems to be calculating odd number of items median by averaging the middle value + the value BEFORE the middle value while the second set of odd rows (3, 9, etc) seem to be calculating median by averaging the middle value + the value AFTER the middel value. The even numbers result in the larger of the two middle values being selected instead of the average (financial median) or the lower number (as one poster claimed for statistical median).
My calculated measure MDX is very simple:
MEDIAN( [Test Fact].[Loan Number].Members, [Measures].[Loan Amount])
Ideas anyone? Am I missing something? Is this a bug?
Thanks!
- Grant
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Hello!
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I create a column with expression: =MAX(Code.AddValue(Val(Fields!Arrival_to_complete.Value))) to fill the array using just the number part of the column. Then in the report I have 'Median =' <expression>, where the expression is: =Code.GetMedian() I run the report with 2 parameters a begin date and an end date. I don't see where any of this should be limiting the median calculation so I don't get why it works sometimes and not other times.
Dim values As New System.Collections.ArrayList
Function AddValue(newValue As Decimal)
If values is Nothing Then
values = New System.Collections.ArrayList
End If
values.Add(newValue)
[code]....
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1 55
2 23
3 23
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The Time here for Op Id 1 is the aggregation for all the rows whose OpId is 1.I want the median of the values whose OpId is 1 which is not showing at the moment.
What I am getting here is the median for all of the OpId but what I really want is the median for each of the individual Opid's as well.
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MEDIAN
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I need to calculate a median on a column in a table. The code I have is:
Code:
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else 'Unknown'
end as test,
datediff(day, [admit_date], getdate()) as 'datediffcal',
from [tbl_record]
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median
15
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978555 480
978555 490
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978324 1102
978311 122
978311 120
978994 804
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column 1 column 2
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978994 804
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Is there a way to better handle the median computation in one pass, if multiple columns are involved?
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insert into @tbl
values (1, 1, 2), (1,3, 4), (1, 5, 7), (2, 4, 7), (2, 7, 7), (2, 3, 5), (2,5, 5), (3, 1, 2), (3, 3, 5), (3, NULL,11)
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from @tbl
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============================
ALTER proc [dbo].[sp_CalculateMedianTimeInDepartmentMinutes]
@StartDate date
,@EndDate date
as
--== Check if count is even or odd
declare @modulo int
select @modulo = (Select COUNT(*)%2 from ED_data where AdmitDateTime between @StartDate and @EndDate )
--=== Get Median
[Code] ....
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I attach also a sample of the view
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ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_ED_Measures]
@StartDate date,
@EndDate date,
@Hospital varchar(5)
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
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Year2 - 6,9,12; Median2- 9
Year3 - 24,68,89; Median3 - 68
Overall Median of 9,52,68 - 52
What I need:
Year1 - 41,52,73; Median1 - 52
Year2 - 6,9,12; Median2- 9
Year3 - 24,68,89; Median3 - 68
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?????
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