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How to calculate the Average Weighted as definition?

adamaso
New Member

Hello All

I have been looking on the forum for a solution on how to calculate the average weighted. I see several options, but not a clear one using the actual statistical approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_arithmetic_mean.

Basically, I would like to try this:

Hits   AVG RT   Call
10       5        A
4        3        B
10       3        A
12       6        B
3        7        B
45       8        A

The idea is to follow the algorithm mentioned, calculating sum((hits* AVG RT)/sum(hits)) per call.

I tried on my own, but I am not an expert yet here on Splunk nomenclature.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

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lguinn2
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Try adding these 4 lines

...
| eval temp=hits * 'AVG RT'
| eventstats sum(hits) as totalhits sum(temp) as sumtemp
| eval wt_rt = sumtemp / totalhits
| fields - sumtemp totalhits
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justinabrahms
New Member

I think this is close, but doesn't actually capture the "grouped per call" aspect of the original question.

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