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Juan
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NORMAL DISTRIBUTION FORMULA IN DAX

Hi,

 

I want to use a simple NORMAL DISTRIBUTION formula in DAX similar to DISTR.NORM formula in Excel.

Is it possible? I see other distributions in the list of Statistical Functions and I cannot understand why the Normal Distribution is not in the list.

 

Thanks.

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Hi matthiumamet.

 

Many thanks for the info.

 

But your 2nd link doesn't works.

 

Try with this:

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/query-bi/dax/norm-dist-dax

 

Josep.

mussol_
Advocate II
Advocate II

Hola Juan,

 

If you want to know how to manage a Normal Distribution on Power BI, I published a couple of videos about this.

 

Please, found them on:

 

https://youtu.be/5bPVMFrUnrU

https://youtu.be/t2ayEpbtDQ4

 

Thanks a lot.

Josep.

Anonymous
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Hello,

I'm facing a problem during video #2. Why "Normal Z Value" is a "blank"? can you help me?

 

Thanks

Hi ,

I watched all 3 videos on Youtube and they are fantastic. I am also trying to use your pbix file and it is working, with one problem.

My values are all decimal numbers 6 digits after comma like 5,496113 & 6,112675 etc. When I use your X calculation in distribution normal table, it is returning me only integers 5,6,7 not the values between them. How can I change this code to sth that I can use for my numbers and round them to 2 or 3 digits.

Thanks in advance

DISTRIBUCION NORMAL = 
VAR MinNumber = FLOOR([X-3σ];1)
VAR MaxNumber = CEILING([X+3σ];1)
RETURN
    SELECTCOLUMNS (
        CALENDAR ( MinNumber; MaxNumber );
        "X"; INT ( [Date] )
    )

 

Hello Ozanboy,

 

did you try to multiply all values by 1000000 and divide final result by the same quantity?

 

I did not try but please, tell me if it works.

 

Thanks a lot!!

 

Josep.

Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

You can create this using the other base statistics functions:

http://blog.gnetgroup.com/bi/2012/07/24/create-a-dynamic-bi-distribution-chart-in-powerpivot-using-d...

 



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Thanks, this helps, but I cannot get why the other distributions (binomial, poisson, exponential...) have their formula and NORMAL DISTRIBUTION doesn't...

No argument from me on that one @Juan!



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