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Since 1.3.0 Calculate the standard deviation from a two-dimensional statistical aggregate for the given dimension. For example, stddev_y() calculates the skewness for all the values of the y variable, independent of values of the x variable.
stddev_y(
  summary StatsSummary2D,
  [ method TEXT ]
) RETURNS DOUBLE PRECISION
stddev_x(summary
    StatsSummary2D,
    [ method TEXT ]
) RETURNS DOUBLE PRECISION

Arguments

NameTypeDefaultRequiredDescription
summaryStatsSummary2D-The statistical aggregate produced by a stats_agg call
methodTEXTsample-The method used for calculating the standard deviation. The two options are population and sample, which can be abbreviated to pop or samp

Returns

ColumnTypeDescription
stddev_y | stddev_xDOUBLE PRECISIONThe standard deviation of the values in the statistical aggregate

Samples

Calculate the standard deviation of a sample containing the integers from 0 to 100:
SELECT stddev_y(stats_agg(data, data))
  FROM generate_series(0, 100) data;
stddev_y
--------
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