Github user holdenk commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12135#discussion_r98793496 --- Diff: python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py --- @@ -1365,18 +1364,41 @@ def approxQuantile(self, col, probabilities, relativeError): Space-efficient Online Computation of Quantile Summaries]] by Greenwald and Khanna. - :param col: the name of the numerical column + Note that rows containing any null values will be removed before calculation. + + :param col: str, list. + Can be a single column name, or a list of names for multiple columns. :param probabilities: a list of quantile probabilities Each number must belong to [0, 1]. For example 0 is the minimum, 0.5 is the median, 1 is the maximum. :param relativeError: The relative target precision to achieve (>= 0). If set to zero, the exact quantiles are computed, which could be very expensive. Note that values greater than 1 are accepted but give the same result as 1. - :return: the approximate quantiles at the given probabilities + :return: the approximate quantiles at the given probabilities. If + the input `col` is a string, the output is a list of float. If the + input `col` is a list or tuple of strings, the output is also a + list, but each element in it is a list of float, i.e., the output + is a list of list of float. --- End diff -- Also float -> floats here
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