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Damian911
2 years agoFrequent Visitor
average - Confused
I have a power bi dataset that is calculating the average of our rental systems. I believe this value is correct. However when you export the data and sum it, it does not sum to 28.63. It Su...
- 2 years ago
I show you a simple example.
Step 0: I use this data below.
Step 1: I get the data with Power BI Desktop and make a measure below.
Weight Avg = AVERAGE('Weight'[Weight kg])
Step 2: I make a matrix.
In this matrix, "53.33" is not a 'Simple average' of "75 and 42.5". (53.33 = (70+80+40+50+45+35)/6)
In this matrix, 'Total' doesn't mean 'Sum of 75 and 42.5' but 'Average of weight of 6 persons'.
Shravan133
2 years agoSuper User
Hi,
We need more details. Whats your measure look like? are you using averagex function?