Im asking how to get the ones that dont fall near the avg.... so for example lets say i have the following distances: 10,11,12,11,10,9,9,10,11,12,10,11,99 then 99 would be an outlier. the avg would be like 16 or 17 i reckon with the 99. so i want a way to find aan outlier, remove it and then recalcuate the avg...and then i'd get a 'better' avg..... i did some seraching about outliers and most of hits are about R or spss or some other statistical package.....so looking for a way to do it wholly in pgsql. Rhys On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ben Chobot <bench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you asking how to find the average and standard deviation? Or how to > compare the your data against some set values? Perhaps an example would be > appropriate; it's not very clear to me what you're asking. > > Rhys A.D. Stewart wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> I have the following table: data(pnum text, distance float8, route text). >> I would like to remove the outliers in distance, i.e. lets say i get >> the avg dist of pnum for each route and the std deviation of the >> distance what is the best way to identify the outliers? >> >> >> Rhys. >> >> > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general