Use aggregate functions, but employ a
GROUP
BY
clause to arrange observations into the
appropriate groups.
Calculating Descriptive Statistics shows how to
compute descriptive statistics for the entire set of scores in the
testscore
table. To be more
specific, you can use GROUP
BY
to divide the observations into
groups and calculate statistics for each of them. For example, the
subjects in the testscore
table are
listed by age and sex, so it’s possible to calculate similar
statistics by age or sex (or both) by application of appropriate
GROUP
BY
clauses.
Here’s how to calculate by age:
mysql>SELECT age, COUNT(score) AS n,
->SUM(score) AS sum,
->MIN(score) AS minimum,
->MAX(score) AS maximum,
->AVG(score) AS mean,
->STDDEV_SAMP(score) AS 'std. dev.',
->VAR_SAMP(score) AS 'variance'
->FROM testscore
->GROUP BY age;
+-----+---+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+ | age | n | sum | minimum | maximum | mean | std. dev. | variance | +-----+---+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+ | 5 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 7 | 5.5000 | 1.2910 | 1.6667 | | 6 | 4 | 27 | 4 | 9 | 6.7500 | 2.2174 | 4.9167 | | 7 | 4 | 30 | 6 | 9 | 7.5000 | 1.2910 | 1.6667 | | 8 | 4 | 32 | 6 | 10 | 8.0000 | 1.8257 | 3.3333 | | 9 | 4 | 35 | 7 | 10 | 8.7500 | 1.2583 | 1.5833 | +-----+---+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+
By sex:
mysql>SELECT sex, COUNT(score) AS n,
->SUM(score) AS sum,
->MIN(score) AS minimum,
->MAX(score) AS maximum,
->AVG(score) AS mean,
->STDDEV_SAMP(score) AS 'std. dev.',
->VAR_SAMP(score) AS 'variance'
->FROM testscore
->GROUP BY sex;
+-----+----+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+ | sex | n | sum | minimum | maximum | mean | std. dev. | variance | +-----+----+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+ | M | 10 | 71 | 4 | 9 | 7.1000 | 1.7920 | 3.2111 | | F | 10 | 75 | 4 | 10 | 7.5000 | 1.9579 | 3.8333 | +-----+----+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+
mysql>SELECT age, sex, COUNT(score) AS n,
->SUM(score) AS sum,
->MIN(score) AS minimum,
->MAX(score) AS maximum,
->AVG(score) AS mean,
->STDDEV_SAMP(score) AS 'std. dev.',
->VAR_SAMP(score) AS 'variance'
->FROM testscore
->GROUP BY age, sex;
+-----+-----+---+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+ | age | sex | n | sum | minimum | maximum | mean | std. dev. | variance | +-----+-----+---+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+ | 5 | M | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4.5000 | 0.7071 | 0.5000 | | 5 | F | 2 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 6.5000 | 0.7071 | 0.5000 | | 6 | M | 2 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 8.5000 | 0.7071 | 0.5000 | | 6 | F | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5.0000 | 1.4142 | 2.0000 | | 7 | M | 2 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 7.0000 | 1.4142 | 2.0000 | | 7 | F | 2 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 8.0000 | 1.4142 | 2.0000 | | 8 | M | 2 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 7.5000 | 2.1213 | 4.5000 | | 8 | F | 2 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 8.5000 | 2.1213 | 4.5000 | | 9 | M | 2 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 8.0000 | 1.4142 | 2.0000 | | 9 | F | 2 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 9.5000 | 0.7071 | 0.5000 | +-----+-----+---+------+---------+---------+--------+-----------+----------+
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