snowflake.snowpark.functions.approx_percentile¶

snowflake.snowpark.functions.approx_percentile(col: Union[Column, str], percentile: float) → Column[source] (https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowpark-python/blob/v1.29.1/snowpark-python/src/snowflake/snowpark/functions.py#L1413-L1436)¶

Returns an approximated value for the desired percentile. This function uses the t-Digest algorithm.

Example::

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>>> df = session.create_dataframe([0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9], schema=["a"])
>>> df.select(approx_percentile("a", 0.5).alias("result")).show()
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|"RESULT"  |
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|4.5       |
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