Hi Arun, You can do df.agg(max(,,), min(..)).
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincères salutations M. Lohith Samaga From: Arunkumar Pillai [mailto:arunkumar1...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 14.53 To: user@spark.apache.org Subject: Need to user univariate summary stats Hi I'm currently using query sqlContext.sql("SELECT MAX(variablesArray) FROM " + tableName) to extract mean max min. is there any better optimized way ? In the example i saw df.groupBy("key").agg(skewness("a"), kurtosis("a")) But i don't have key anywhere in the data. How to extract the univariate summary stats from df. please help -- Thanks and Regards Arun Information transmitted by this e-mail is proprietary to Mphasis, its associated companies and/ or its customers and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. In such cases, please notify us immediately at mailmas...@mphasis.com and delete this mail from your records.