用MySQL计算中位数最简单(希望不会太慢)的方法是什么?我已经使用AVG(x)来寻找平均值，但我很难找到一个简单的方法来计算中位数。现在，我将所有的行返回到PHP，进行排序，然后选择中间的行，但是肯定有一些简单的方法可以在一个MySQL查询中完成它。
示例数据:
id | val
--------
1 4
2 7
3 2
4 2
5 9
6 8
7 3
对val排序得到2 2 3 4 7 8 9，因此中位数应该是4，而SELECT AVG(val) == 5。
当前回答
你也可以选择在存储过程中这样做:
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS median;
DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE median (table_name VARCHAR(255), column_name VARCHAR(255), where_clause VARCHAR(255))
BEGIN
-- Set default parameters
IF where_clause IS NULL OR where_clause = '' THEN
SET where_clause = 1;
END IF;
-- Prepare statement
SET @sql = CONCAT(
"SELECT AVG(middle_values) AS 'median' FROM (
SELECT t1.", column_name, " AS 'middle_values' FROM
(
SELECT @row:=@row+1 as `row`, x.", column_name, "
FROM ", table_name," AS x, (SELECT @row:=0) AS r
WHERE ", where_clause, " ORDER BY x.", column_name, "
) AS t1,
(
SELECT COUNT(*) as 'count'
FROM ", table_name, " x
WHERE ", where_clause, "
) AS t2
-- the following condition will return 1 record for odd number sets, or 2 records for even number sets.
WHERE t1.row >= t2.count/2
AND t1.row <= ((t2.count/2)+1)) AS t3
");
-- Execute statement
PREPARE stmt FROM @sql;
EXECUTE stmt;
END//
DELIMITER ;
-- Sample usage:
-- median(table_name, column_name, where_condition);
CALL median('products', 'price', NULL);
其他回答
我发现这个答案非常有用——https://www.eversql.com/how-to-calculate-median-value-in-mysql-using-a-simple-sql-query/
SET @rowindex := -1;
SELECT
AVG(g.grade)
FROM
(SELECT @rowindex:=@rowindex + 1 AS rowindex,
grades.grade AS grade
FROM grades
ORDER BY grades.grade) AS g
WHERE
g.rowindex IN (FLOOR(@rowindex / 2) , CEIL(@rowindex / 2));
我建议一个更快的方法。
获取行数:
SELECT CEIL(COUNT(*)/2);
然后取排序子查询的中间值:
SELECT max(val) FROM (SELECT val FROM data ORDER BY val limit @middlevalue);
我用5x10e6的随机数数据集进行了测试，它将在10秒内找到中位数。
安装和使用本mysql统计函数:http://www.xarg.org/2012/07/statistical-functions-in-mysql/
之后，计算中值就很简单了:
SELECT median(val) FROM data;
来自: http://mdb-blog.blogspot.com/2015/06/mysql-find-median-nth-element-without.html
我建议另一种方法，不用连接， 但是处理字符串
我没有用大数据表来检验， 但是中小型的桌子就可以了。
这里的好处是，它也可以通过GROUPING工作，所以它可以返回几个项目的中值。
下面是测试表的测试代码:
DROP TABLE test.test_median
CREATE TABLE test.test_median AS
SELECT 'book' AS grp, 4 AS val UNION ALL
SELECT 'book', 7 UNION ALL
SELECT 'book', 2 UNION ALL
SELECT 'book', 2 UNION ALL
SELECT 'book', 9 UNION ALL
SELECT 'book', 8 UNION ALL
SELECT 'book', 3 UNION ALL
SELECT 'note', 11 UNION ALL
SELECT 'bike', 22 UNION ALL
SELECT 'bike', 26
求每组中位数的代码:
SELECT grp,
SUBSTRING_INDEX( SUBSTRING_INDEX( GROUP_CONCAT(val ORDER BY val), ',', COUNT(*)/2 ), ',', -1) as the_median,
GROUP_CONCAT(val ORDER BY val) as all_vals_for_debug
FROM test.test_median
GROUP BY grp
输出:
grp | the_median| all_vals_for_debug
bike| 22 | 22,26
book| 4 | 2,2,3,4,7,8,9
note| 11 | 11
我刚刚在网上的评论中找到了另一个答案:
对于几乎所有SQL中的中位数: SELECT x.val from data x, data y GROUP BY x.val 总和(符号(1-SIGN (y.val-x.val))) = (COUNT (*) + 1) / 2
确保列有良好的索引，并且索引用于筛选和排序。与解释计划核对。
select count(*) from table --find the number of rows
计算“中值”行号。可能使用:median_row = floor(count / 2)。
然后把它从列表中挑出来:
select val from table order by val asc limit median_row,1
这将返回您想要的值的一行。
