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Jenny Thompson updated PIG-1150:
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Attachment: PIG-1150.patch
I have attached an UDF that uses the Chan method. I used AVG as a guide, so I
implemented Algebraic and Accumulator. If this is to be committed, I can add
javadocs and test cases.
> VAR() Variance UDF
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> Key: PIG-1150
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1150
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 0.5.0
> Environment: UDF, written in Pig 0.5 contrib/
> Reporter: Russell Jurney
> Assignee: Dmitriy V. Ryaboy
> Attachments: PIG-1150.patch, var.patch
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> I've implemented a UDF in Pig 0.5 that implements Algebraic and calculates
> variance in a distributed manner, based on the AVG() builtin. It works by
> calculating the count, sum and sum of squares, as described here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#Parallel_algorithm
> Is this a worthwhile contribution? Taking the square root of this value
> using the contrib SQRT() function gives Standard Deviation, which is missing
> from Pig.
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