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Re: Calculate average value recursively

Subject: Re: Calculate average value recursively
From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:51:22 +0100
calculate average
Weiran Zhang wrote:
I'm trying to calculate the average for a set of rainfall values in the following node-set:

<month number="1">
    <day number="1">
        <rainfall>1.5</rainfall>
    </day>
    <day number="2">
        <rainfall>0.5</rainfall>
    </day>
    <day number="3">
        <rainfall>TR</rainfall>
    </day>
    ...
</month>

Usually, I'd use "sum(month/day/rainfall) div count(month/day)" to get the average rainfall, however, as null values are represented as "TR", that expression returns a NaN error.

Just avoid selecting "TR" values, for example: sum(month/day/rainfall[.!='TR']) div count(month/day[rainfall!='TR']) or sum(month/day/rainfall[.!='TR']) div count(month/day) depending on what your definition of "average" is.

J.Pietschmann

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