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aka47

calculations for stddev will always return a float value

Reported by aka47 | October 27th, 2008 @ 12:50 PM | in 3.x

In 99% of all standard deviation calculations you want the return value to be a float value, until now it depends on the value of the column you calculate the Standard deviation for. The standard deviation of a integer field will be an integer as well.

I changed it so it will always be a float, also for stddev_pop and stddev_samp

I also added it to the documentation

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  • Pratik

    Pratik March 6th, 2009 @ 04:19 PM

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    Looks good. I wonder how many DBs support stddev ? If it works on mysql/postgres/sqlite, I'd be happy to commit.

    Thanks.

  • Pratik

    Pratik May 18th, 2009 @ 10:22 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “incomplete”

    Doesn't work on sqlite3.

  • Jeremy Kemper

    Jeremy Kemper May 4th, 2010 @ 06:48 PM

    • Milestone changed from 2.x to 3.x
  • Santiago Pastorino

    Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 05:04 PM

    • State changed from “incomplete” to “open”
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  • Santiago Pastorino

    Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 05:04 PM

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