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Anonymous
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9 years ago
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Standard Deviation

Hi All, My Fact has ItemKey,CompanyKey,MonthKey,Revenue is there anway to calculate 'StDev.P' with resepect to itemnumbers from Item Dimension and MonthNumbers from Date Dimension. where revenue f...
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    OwenAuger
    9 years ago

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    I would personally prefer to do this with a measure rather than creating any intermediate tables:

    Something like:

    =
STDEVX.P (
    SUMMARIZE ( 'Fact', DimItem[ItemNumber], DimDate[MonthNumber] ),
    CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Fact'[Revenue] ) )
)

    This should produce the same result as Eric_Zhang had above.

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OwenAuger
Super User
9 years ago

Anonymous

 

I would personally prefer to do this with a measure rather than creating any intermediate tables:

Something like:

=
STDEVX.P (
    SUMMARIZE ( 'Fact', DimItem[ItemNumber], DimDate[MonthNumber] ),
    CALCULATE ( SUM ( 'Fact'[Revenue] ) )
)

This should produce the same result as Eric_Zhang had above.

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srb803
Frequent Visitor
2 years ago

I am working on a similar scenario and have hierarchies of the categories. 
It worked for me at the top level.