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Hands-On Business Intelligence with DAX

You're reading from   Hands-On Business Intelligence with DAX Discover the intricacies of this powerful query language to gain valuable insights from your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838824303
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ian Horne Ian Horne
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to DAX for the BI Pro
2. What is DAX? FREE CHAPTER 3. Using DAX Variables and Formatting 4. Building Data Models 5. Working with DAX in Power BI, Excel, and SSAS 6. Getting It into Context 7. Section 2: Understanding DAX Functions and Syntax
8. Progressive DAX Syntax and Functions 9. Table Functions 10. Date, Time, and Time Intelligence Functions 11. Filter Functions 12. Statistical Functions 13. Working with DAX Patterns 14. Section 3: Taking DAX to the Next Level
15. Optimizing Your Data Model 16. Optimizing Your DAX Queries 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Calculating standard deviation and variance

This group of DAX functions contains several aggregation functions that will help you to calculate the standard deviation and variance of a population. There are two variations of each function: one with a suffix of .P and the other with a suffix of .S. The functions that end with .P calculate the result using a formula that is based on the assumption that the data represents the entire population. Those ending with .S use a slightly different formula that is based on the assumption that the data represents a sample of the entire population.

As with the other functions in this group, there are also versions of the functions that work with a single column and versions that iterate over a table, evaluating an expression. Let's start by looking at the four functions that will help you to calculate standard deviation.

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