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carter
Frequent Visitor

NaN Error only sometimes???

Hello!

 

I using the following dax function to find the average Std Dev across all groups. 

 

Standard deviation of VALUES average per GROUP = 
AVERAGEX(
KEEPFILTERS(VALUES('GROUP')),
CALCULATE(STDEV.P('VALUES'))
)

 

When I use this measure on a number of categories I recieve the following table:

 table1.png

There is no blanks so I am having difficulty finding out where this NaN is coming from. 

 

When I filter the data to a category with a NaN value I recieve the following table and surprise the NaN value disappears.

table2.png

 

 

How might I fix this?

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @carter,

 

Can you share a sample of your data? The "NaN" could be raised by the function STDEV.P.

 

Best Regards,

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
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Hi Dale (@v-jiascu-msft)

 

Here is some sample data:

 

Thanks,

Carter

 

CategoryGroupValue
1.043-45000-45010.1
1.043-45000-45002.4
1.043-45000-45002
1.043-45000-44999
1.043-45000-44992.1
1.044-45000-45010.1
1.044-45000-44999.3
2.001-45000-45010.1
2.001-45000-45000.8
2.001-45000-44999.6
2.004-45000-45010.1
2.004-45000-45006.4
2.004-45000-45004.3
2.004-45000-44999.6
2.008-45000-45010.1
2.008-45000-45003.6
2.008-45000-45003
2.008-45000-45002.8
2.008-45000-45002.6
2.008-45000-44997.3
1.043-40000-40013.5
1.043-40000-40004.1
1.043-40000-40003.4
1.043-40000-40000.8
1.043-40000-39996.9
1.043-40000-39996.3
1.043-40000-39995.4
1.043-40000-39995.1
1.043-40000-39993.2
1.044-40000-40013.5
1.044-40000-40000.4
1.044-40000-39996.9
2.001-40000-40013.5
2.001-40000-40002.7
2.004-40000-40013.5
2.004-40000-39999.2
2.008-40000-40013.5
2.008-40000-40004
2.008-40000-40002.7
2.008-40000-40002
2.008-40000-39996.9
1.043-30000-30020.4
1.043-30000-30007.3
1.043-30000-30002
1.043-30000-29998.9
1.043-30000-29994.6
1.043-30000-29990.4
1.044-30000-30020.4
2.001-30000-30020.4
2.001-30000-29998.2
2.001-30000-29997.2
2.001-30000-29996.8
2.004-30000-30020.4
2.004-30000-30008.3
2.008-30000-30020.4
2.008-30000-30006.4
2.008-30000-30005.9
2.008-30000-30003.5
2.008-30000-30001.2
2.008-30000-30001
2.008-30000-29999
2.008-30000-29998.5
1.038-20000-19999.9
1.038-20000-19999.3
1.038-20000-19999.2
1.038-20000-19997.2
1.038-20000-19995.7
1.038-20000-19993
1.039-20000-20000.8
1.039-20000-19999.9
1.039-20000-19999.1
1.039-20000-19999
1.039-20000-19997.2
1.039-20000-19996.5
1.039-20000-19993.9
1.039-20000-19993
1.039-20000-19991.3
1.04-20000-20001.5
1.04-20000-20000.6
1.04-20000-19999.9
1.04-20000-19998.2
1.04-20000-19997.2
1.04-20000-19988
1.042-20000-19999.9
1.042-20000-19997.7
1.043-20000-19999.9
1.043-20000-19997.7
1.043-20000-19997.2
1.043-20000-19996.2
1.043-20000-19995.2
1.043-20000-19989.5
1.044-20000-19999.9
1.044-20000-19997.2
2.001-20000-19999.9
2.001-20000-19999.3
2.001-20000-19997.4
2.001-20000-19997.2
2.001-20000-19997.2
2.001-20000-19995.7
2.004-20000-19999.9
2.004-20000-19997.2
2.004-20000-19996.9
2.005-20000-19999.9
2.007-20000-19999.9
2.007-20000-19998
2.007-20000-19499.7
2.008-20000-20027.2
2.008-20000-20003.4
2.008-20000-20001.7
2.008-20000-20001.6
2.008-20000-20000.2
   

Hi @carter,

 

Can you share the pbix file? You can delete the private parts first. I can't reproduce the same result with your sample data. Just see from the formula √[∑(x - x̃)²/n], it seems no possibilities to get such results.

 

Best Regards,

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
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