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How to search and calculate the average for the top 70 percent of a field?

bkcstone
Engager

How to calculate the average for top 70%. A field in log contains a value. I need to ignore the least 30% and then calculate average.

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strive
Influencer

Try this

some search terms.. | sort 0 - Field_Of_Interest | streamstats count as Rank | eventstats count as TotalRows | where Rank<(TotalRows * 0.7) | stats avg(Field_Of_Interest) as Required_Average

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strive
Influencer

Try this

some search terms.. | sort 0 - Field_Of_Interest | streamstats count as Rank | eventstats count as TotalRows | where Rank<(TotalRows * 0.7) | stats avg(Field_Of_Interest) as Required_Average
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