mysql获取中位数函数,用MySQL计算中位数的简单方法

What's the simplest (and hopefully not too slow) way to calculate the median with MySQL? I've used AVG(x) for finding the mean, but I'm having a hard time finding a simple way of calculating the median. For now, I'm returning all the rows to PHP, doing a sort, and then picking the middle row, but surely there must be some simple way of doing it in a single MySQL query.

Example data:

id | val

--------

1 4

2 7

3 2

4 2

5 9

6 8

7 3

Sorting on val gives 2 2 3 4 7 8 9, so the median should be 4, versus SELECT AVG(val) which == 5.

解决方案

In MariaDB / MySQL:

SELECT AVG(dd.val) as median_val

FROM (

SELECT d.val, @rownum:=@rownum+1 as `row_number`, @total_rows:=@rownum

FROM data d, (SELECT @rownum:=0) r

WHERE d.val is NOT NULL

-- put some where clause here

ORDER BY d.val

) as dd

WHERE dd.row_number IN ( FLOOR((@total_rows+1)/2), FLOOR((@total_rows+2)/2) );

Steve Cohen points out, that after the first pass, @rownum will contain the total number of rows. This can be used to determine the median, so no second pass or join is needed.

Also AVG(dd.val) and dd.row_number IN(...) is used to correctly produce a median when there are an even number of records. Reasoning:

SELECT FLOOR((3+1)/2),FLOOR((3+2)/2); -- when total_rows is 3, avg rows 2 and 2

SELECT FLOOR((4+1)/2),FLOOR((4+2)/2); -- when total_rows is 4, avg rows 2 and 3