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newhopepdx
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2 years ago

Monthly average greater than the largest single input. Why?

I have started an event attendance report showing total attendance by event date to various events and a bar graph showing the average monthly, quarterly or yearly total attendance per event date.  ...
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jdbuchanan71
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2 years ago

Because you are taking the average at the venue level then adding those all up:

AverAttendance = 
    SUMX (
        VALUES ( 'Attendance'[Venue] ),
        CALCULATE ( AVERAGE ( 'Attendance'[Attendance] ) )
)

The first one is just the straight avg so you can see that it is correct at the venue level.  Then you add all those up and get 847.

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newhopepdx
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2 years ago

Ok, I see how that work, but then what is the proper measure definition?