[jira] Commented: (PIG-1150) VAR() Variance UDF

["Olga Natkovich (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Olga Natkovich commented on PIG-1150:
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Dmitry, is patch ready to be committed or are you planning to submit a new one? Thanks

> VAR() Variance UDF
> ------------------
>
>                 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
>             Fix For: 0.8.0
>
>         Attachments: var.patch
>
>
> 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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