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Anonymous
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Standard Deviation and Average of Count of Occurrences

I am currently building a PowerBI to display how many pumps of a product you get out of a certain bottle of product. Many replicates are being done to determine the variation in number of pumps per bottle. I have time stamps for each occurance and an index value for which bottle these pumps are made on. I want to the average and standard deviation of the total number of pumps per bottle. There will be 100+ bottles, so I don't want to have to write 100+ measures for each bottle. Any ideas of how to write a measure so I can display the updated average and standard deviation as more and more data comes in? I put an example of the data set I have below. Thank you for your help!

 

Date TimePumpBottle Index
7/30/2020 6:0815
7/30/2020 6:0915
7/30/2020 6:1115
7/30/2020 6:1415
7/30/2020 6:1515
7/30/2020 6:1615
7/30/2020 6:1815
7/30/2020 6:1915
7/30/2020 6:2015
7/30/2020 6:2215
7/30/2020 6:2316
7/30/2020 6:2416
7/30/2020 6:2616
7/30/2020 6:2716
7/30/2020 6:2816
7/30/2020 6:3016
7/30/2020 6:3116
7/30/2020 6:3216
7/30/2020 6:3416
7/30/2020 6:3516
7/30/2020 6:3616
7/30/2020 6:3816
7/30/2020 6:3916
7/30/2020 6:4017
7/30/2020 6:4117
7/30/2020 6:4317
7/30/2020 6:4417
7/30/2020 6:4517
7/30/2020 6:4717
7/30/2020 6:4817
7/30/2020 6:4917
7/30/2020 6:5117
7/30/2020 6:5217
7/30/2020 6:5318
7/30/2020 6:5518
7/30/2020 6:5618
7/30/2020 6:5718
7/30/2020 6:5918
7/30/2020 7:0018
7/30/2020 7:0118
7/30/2020 7:0318
7/30/2020 7:0418
7/30/2020 7:0518
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Anonymous
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[Avg Across Bottles] =
    AVERAGEX(
        VALUES( T[Bottle Index] ),
        CALCULATE(
            SUM( T[Pump] )
        )
    )
    
[Std Across Bottles] =
    STDEVX.S(
        VALUES( T[Bottle Index] ),
        CALCULATE(
            SUM( T[Pump] )
        )        
    )

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Anonymous
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[Avg Across Bottles] =
    AVERAGEX(
        VALUES( T[Bottle Index] ),
        CALCULATE(
            SUM( T[Pump] )
        )
    )
    
[Std Across Bottles] =
    STDEVX.S(
        VALUES( T[Bottle Index] ),
        CALCULATE(
            SUM( T[Pump] )
        )        
    )
Anonymous
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That worked, thank you!!!

Anonymous
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[Avg] = AVERAGE( T[Pump] )
[Std] = STDEV.S( T[Pump] )

// All you have to do now is
// slice by Bottle Index to
// get the avg and std of
// the total number of pumps
// per bottle.
Anonymous
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If I use:

 

 

[Avg] = AVERAGE( T[Pump] )
[Std] = STDEV.S( T[Pump] )

 

 

It produces an Avg = 1, and Std = 0. All pump values are 1 in my table. I want to do the average and std based on the sum of "1"s from each bottle index value (5-8 in my example). The answer should be:

 

Average = 10.75

Std.S = 1.5

 

Which comes from:

 

IndexBottle Pumps
510
613
710
810

 

I need a way to somehow transform my data into table like this within PowerBI and then calculate average and standard deviation from this new table. 

Anonymous
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I couldn't find anything in those links to help with my application. If you have any specific advice or code that would help with my problem listed above would be helpful, thanks!

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