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Jeff Hammerbacher updated HIVE-165:
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Component/s: Query Processor
Adding to "Query Processor" component.
> var(col) built-in to go with avg(col) and count(col)
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> Key: HIVE-165
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-165
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Query Processor
> Reporter: Adam Kramer
> Assignee: David Phillips
> Priority: Minor
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> The last step in the unholy triumvirate of statistical built-ins is the
> variance. We already have the n (count) and the mean (avg). I currently have
> a job or two that filters all of the data into a single reducer which just
> computes mean/n/variance and writes it to a table...so my guess is that this
> would be a pretty big speed increase. Not a huge deal though, as computing
> the variance myself is trivial.
> (Average, variance, and n can be co-computed in one pass, so if you're doing
> var() you can basically have avg() and count() for free.)
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