MEDIAN() OVER ...

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Returns the median of values in the window frame as DOUBLE.

Syntax

MEDIAN(expr) [FILTER (WHERE condition) | WITHIN (WHERE condition)] OVER ([PARTITION BY expr [, ...]] [ORDER BY sort_item [, ...]] [ROWS|RANGE|GROUPS frame])

Notes

  • SQL translation is implemented only when the current SQL backend is DuckDB
  • Requires a well-defined window (ORDER BY, and optionally PARTITION BY and frame)
  • NULL values are ignored where the underlying window aggregate skips NULLs

See also

Examples

FeatureQL
SELECT
    -- Running median to the current row
    f1 := ZIP(ARRAY(1, 2, 3, 4) AS id, ARRAY(30, 10, 20, 5) AS v).TRANSFORM(
        SELECT MEDIAN(CAST(v AS DOUBLE)) OVER (ORDER BY id ASC).ROUND(2)
    ).UNWRAP(),
    -- Running median counting only rows where v > 15 (10 and 5 excluded from the frame)
    f2 := ZIP(ARRAY(1, 2, 3, 4) AS id, ARRAY(30, 10, 20, 5) AS v).TRANSFORM(
        SELECT MEDIAN(CAST(v AS DOUBLE)) FILTER (WHERE v > 15) OVER (ORDER BY id ASC).ROUND(
            2
        )
    ).UNWRAP()
;
Result
f1 ARRAYf2 ARRAY
[30.00, 20.00, 20.00, 15.00][30.00, 30.00, 25.00, 25.00]

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