APPROX_MEDIAN

APPROX_MEDIAN calculates the median value of a distribution of values. The value found has is approximately at the 50th percentile, within some error term (0.01, by default). APPROX_MEDIAN(x) is equivalent to APPROX_PERCENTILE(0.5, x)

Parameter	Type	Description
`value`	decimal, double	the values to be counted
`error`	decimal, double	the maximum allowable error of the percentile to be found. Must be greater than 0.0 and less than 1.0, and must be the same for all values. This argument is optional, with default value 0.01

Returns: decimal

Example

query:

SELECT APPROX_MEDIAN(close_value)
  FROM sales_pipeline

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result:

approx_median
491.0