Statistical aggregate functions in GoogleSQL

GoogleSQL for Spanner supports statistical aggregate functions. To learn about the syntax for aggregate function calls, see Aggregate function calls.

Function list

Name Summary
STDDEV An alias of the STDDEV_SAMP function.
STDDEV_SAMP Computes the sample (unbiased) standard deviation of the values.
VAR_SAMP Computes the sample (unbiased) variance of the values.
VARIANCE An alias of VAR_SAMP.

STDDEV

STDDEV(
  [ DISTINCT ]
  expression
  [ HAVING { MAX | MIN } expression2 ]
)

Description

An alias of STDDEV_SAMP.

STDDEV_SAMP

STDDEV_SAMP(
  [ DISTINCT ]
  expression
  [ HAVING { MAX | MIN } expression2 ]
)

Description

Returns the sample (unbiased) standard deviation of the values. The return result is between 0 and +Inf.

All numeric types are supported. If the input is NUMERIC then the internal aggregation is stable with the final output converted to a FLOAT64. Otherwise the input is converted to a FLOAT64 before aggregation, resulting in a potentially unstable result.

This function ignores any NULL inputs. If there are fewer than two non-NULL inputs, this function returns NULL.

NaN is produced if:

  • Any input value is NaN
  • Any input value is positive infinity or negative infinity.

To learn more about the optional aggregate clauses that you can pass into this function, see Aggregate function calls.

Return Data Type

FLOAT64

Examples

SELECT STDDEV_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([10, 14, 18]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | 4       |
 *---------*/
SELECT STDDEV_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([10, 14, NULL]) AS x

/*--------------------*
 | results            |
 +--------------------+
 | 2.8284271247461903 |
 *--------------------*/
SELECT STDDEV_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([10, NULL]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | NULL    |
 *---------*/
SELECT STDDEV_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([NULL]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | NULL    |
 *---------*/
SELECT STDDEV_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([10, 14, CAST('Infinity' as FLOAT64)]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | NaN     |
 *---------*/

VAR_SAMP

VAR_SAMP(
  [ DISTINCT ]
  expression
  [ HAVING { MAX | MIN } expression2 ]
)

Description

Returns the sample (unbiased) variance of the values. The return result is between 0 and +Inf.

All numeric types are supported. If the input is NUMERIC then the internal aggregation is stable with the final output converted to a FLOAT64. Otherwise the input is converted to a FLOAT64 before aggregation, resulting in a potentially unstable result.

This function ignores any NULL inputs. If there are fewer than two non-NULL inputs, this function returns NULL.

NaN is produced if:

  • Any input value is NaN
  • Any input value is positive infinity or negative infinity.

To learn more about the optional aggregate clauses that you can pass into this function, see Aggregate function calls.

Return Data Type

FLOAT64

Examples

SELECT VAR_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([10, 14, 18]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | 16      |
 *---------*/
SELECT VAR_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([10, 14, NULL]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | 8       |
 *---------*/
SELECT VAR_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([10, NULL]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | NULL    |
 *---------*/
SELECT VAR_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([NULL]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | NULL    |
 *---------*/
SELECT VAR_SAMP(x) AS results FROM UNNEST([10, 14, CAST('Infinity' as FLOAT64)]) AS x

/*---------*
 | results |
 +---------+
 | NaN     |
 *---------*/

VARIANCE

VARIANCE(
  [ DISTINCT ]
  expression
  [ HAVING { MAX | MIN } expression2 ]
)

Description

An alias of VAR_SAMP.