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SammyPub
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Average of category using only subcategories with more than x rows

Hi, I want to get the average for each category, using only the subcategory rows where there are more than x rows. The number x is defined by a slicer.

 

Example, considering the following table, the calculation of each category average should ignore the red lines because those subcategories have less than 2 rows  (in case of the slicer equals to 2)

How can i make it?
Thanks

 

Category   SubCategory   Value
cat1subcat1  1
cat1subcat1  2
cat1subcat1  3
cat1subcat2  2
cat1subcat2  3
cat1subcat3  3
cat2subcat4  1
cat2subcat4  1
cat3subcat1  3
cat3subcat1  1
cat3subcat2  1
......
catnsubcatn  3

 

The average should be:

cat1 = (1+2+3+2+3)/5,5

cat2 = (1+1)/2=1

cat2=(3+1)/2=2

 

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Anonymous
Not applicable

// If only one category has been selected,
// the measure returns the average of Value
// across all subcategories of the category
// for which the number of rows is >= the
// selected number from the slicer. If many
// categories are seleced, it returns the
// average of the averages as calculated above
// for each individual category.

[Category Average] =
var vMaxNumOfRowsAmongAllSubcategories =
    CALCULATE(
        MAXX(
            SUMMARIZE(
                T,
                T[Category],
                T[Subcategory]
            ),
            CALCULATE( COUNTROWS( T ) )
        )
        ALL( )
    )
var vMinNumOfRowsInSubcategories =
    SELECTEDVALUE(
        Slicer[X],
        vMaxNumOfRowsAmongAllSubcategories + 1
    )
var vCatSubcatCombinationsOfInterest =
    FILTER(
        SUMMARIZE(
            T,
            T[Category],
            T[Subcategory]
        ),
        var vRowCount = CALCULATE( COUNTROWS( T ) )
        return
            vRowCount >= vMinNumOfRowsInSubcategories
    )
var vResult =
    CALCULATE(
        AVERAGEX(
            DISTINCT( T[Category] ),
            CALCULATE( AVERAGE( T[Value] ) )
        ),
        vCatSubcatCombinationsOfInterest
    )
RETURN
    vResult

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Anonymous
Not applicable

// If only one category has been selected,
// the measure returns the average of Value
// across all subcategories of the category
// for which the number of rows is >= the
// selected number from the slicer. If many
// categories are seleced, it returns the
// average of the averages as calculated above
// for each individual category.

[Category Average] =
var vMaxNumOfRowsAmongAllSubcategories =
    CALCULATE(
        MAXX(
            SUMMARIZE(
                T,
                T[Category],
                T[Subcategory]
            ),
            CALCULATE( COUNTROWS( T ) )
        )
        ALL( )
    )
var vMinNumOfRowsInSubcategories =
    SELECTEDVALUE(
        Slicer[X],
        vMaxNumOfRowsAmongAllSubcategories + 1
    )
var vCatSubcatCombinationsOfInterest =
    FILTER(
        SUMMARIZE(
            T,
            T[Category],
            T[Subcategory]
        ),
        var vRowCount = CALCULATE( COUNTROWS( T ) )
        return
            vRowCount >= vMinNumOfRowsInSubcategories
    )
var vResult =
    CALCULATE(
        AVERAGEX(
            DISTINCT( T[Category] ),
            CALCULATE( AVERAGE( T[Value] ) )
        ),
        vCatSubcatCombinationsOfInterest
    )
RETURN
    vResult
SammyPub
Frequent Visitor

Ok, I'm sending here the link for the pbix file: Sample 

How can I reflect the changes on the slicer to table 2. It work fine for table 1.

On table 2, what I want is to calculate the averave using only the schools with more than x exams. The table is calculating the average for the regions with more than x exams.

Thanks

daxer-almighty
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Of course it's possible but without knowing your model and whether it's to be a visual average or not... it's not possible to give you a correct formula.

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