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Anonymous
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DAX function

Hello, I'm relatively new to Power BI. Need help with median and standard deviation DAX functions (MEDIAN and

STDEV.P)

Both accept only reference to a column. I need to use MEASURE which is monthly TOTALs . Need to show on line chart monthly totals over a period of 2 years along with Median and Stand. deviation. Your help is much appreciated!!!

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Anonymous
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Thank you so much for your response. Not sure how to apply your formulla   to my case. I've created a measure:

Total Inpatient Orders = CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(distinct(OPIOIDS[IDcode])), FILTER (OPIOIDS,OPIOIDS[IsGiven] = 1))

I got a perfect monthly linechart for a few years that shows montly Total Inpatient Orders. Now need to apply MEDIAN and Standard Deviation to this chart. Any suggestions?

Thanks again

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JasonTX
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If understand correctly, you want to find Standard deviation and median grouped by monthly totals. You may want to create a Summarize or Summarize Column.

 

It should look something like:

 

STDEVX.P(
  SUMMARIZE(
       [Table],
       'Table'[Date].[Month],
        "Total", Sum([Sales])
        ),
   [Total]
)

 

Please let me know if this works. 

 

Regards

Anonymous
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Thank you so much for your response. Not sure how to apply your formulla   to my case. I've created a measure:

Total Inpatient Orders = CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(distinct(OPIOIDS[IDcode])), FILTER (OPIOIDS,OPIOIDS[IsGiven] = 1))

I got a perfect monthly linechart for a few years that shows montly Total Inpatient Orders. Now need to apply MEDIAN and Standard Deviation to this chart. Any suggestions?

Thanks again

Replace SUM(Sales) with [Total Inpatient Orders] and 'Table'[Date] with whatever date column you are using.

 

Hope that helps 😁

Anonymous
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Thank you so much. I was able to create a stand. dev. measure. But when I try to place it into Values on my chart, I see the 'hour glass' sign for long, and never finishes. Like Cortesian product in Transact SQL. Any idea?

Thank you

Anonymous
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Never mind. I;ve found the issue. My mistake. Thank you

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