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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).

Returns: decimal

Table 1.

Parameter

Type

Description

value

decimal, double

the values to be counted

value

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



Example

Query

PREFIX : <https://ddw-doccorp.linked.data.world/d/sparql-aggregation-sample-queries/>
PREFIX agg: <http://data.world/function/aggregate#>

SELECT (agg:approx_median(?foo) AS ?approx_median)
{
    [ :col-aggregations-foo ?foo ]
}

Try the query

Table 1. Results

approx_median

5.0