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Highly Specialized Statistical Functions
. Various types of highly
complex and unusual statistical functionality exist in Oracle SQL as
compiled procedures. Additionally, the DBMS_STAT_FUNCS
package contains a specialized set of statistical functions.
The next task is to examine analysis function syntax. After introducing
appropriate functions and methods, we will examine various specialized
syntactical elements. The details of how these functions and specialized syn-
tax elements are applied will be discussed later in this chapter.
9.3 Introducing Analytical Functions
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