10STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS IN SQL
A SQL database isn’t usually the first tool a data analyst chooses when performing statistical analysis that requires more than just calculating sums and averages. Typically, the software of choice would be full-featured statistics packages, such as SPSS or SAS, the programming languages R or Python, or even Excel. However, standard ANSI SQL, including PostgreSQL’s implementation, offers a handful of powerful stats functions that reveal a lot about your data without having to export your data set to another program.
In this chapter, we’ll explore these SQL stats functions along with guidelines on when to use them. ...
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