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getting error with stats

jiaqya
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i have numbers in Yes and Total columns and am trying to get a result using stats . but i keep getting error. not sure how to do this, can you help.

|stats eval(Yes/Total)*100 as Compliance

Error in 'stats' command: The aggregation specifier 'eval(Yes/Total)*100' is invalid. The aggregation specifier must be in func_name format.

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cmerriman
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you cannot use eval inside of a stats command like that. try forming it more like this
|eval Compliance=(Yes/Total)*100)|stats values(Compliance) as Compliance

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cmerriman
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you cannot use eval inside of a stats command like that. try forming it more like this
|eval Compliance=(Yes/Total)*100)|stats values(Compliance) as Compliance

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jiaqya
Builder

Hi , thanks for your response, i tried what you gave above, but it did not give me the correct output.

the output of Yes, Total and Compliance is below. its already updated. what i am trying is to get the average value of Compliance. if i do avg(compliance) i get a different value and if i do sum(yes)/sum(total)*100 for compliance i get a different value, which is the correct one.

could you help me get the correct average from this table using stats or any other way.

Yes Total Compliance
0 1 0
0 4 0
1 1 100
224 225 99.56
5 5 100
15 15 100
88 92 95.65

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cmerriman
Super Champion

how about something like this?
...|addcoltotals labelfield=Compliance|search Compliance="Total"|eval Compliance=(Yes/Total)*100

i put your data in this table so you can see what i did:

|makeresults|eval data="Yes=0,Total=1,Compliance=0 Yes=0,Total=4,Compliance=0 Yes=1,Total=1,Compliance=100 Yes=224,Total=225,Compliance=99.56 Yes=5,Total=5,Compliance=100 Yes=15,Total=15,Compliance=100 Yes=88,Total=92,Compliance=99.65"|makemv data|mvexpand data|rename data as _raw|kv|table Yes Total Compliance|addcoltotals labelfield=Compliance|search Compliance="Total"|eval Compliance=(Yes/Total)*100
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jiaqya
Builder

it did help me . thanks

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