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ON.CHANGE (OCH)
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Routine Name Abbreviation Description
MINIMUM; MIN; Smallest value
SUM.SQUARES; SSQ; Sum of the squares of the values
MEAN.SQUARES; MSQ; Average of the squares of the values
VARIANCE; VAR; Variance of the values
STD.DEVIATION; STD; Standard deviation of the values
When using the ON.CHANGE; statistical routines, internal working storage variables are
generated in the Report where necessary, to store the intermediate values for some of the
calculations.
These variables are of a fixed size. If the magnitude of the data used when running the
Report exceeds this size, runtime calculation errors can occur. The internal variable
number and usage are shown in the following table.
Routine Name Routine Number Used to Store the ...
MAXIMUM; 1 Maximum value found
MINIMUM 2 Minimum value found
VARIANCE; 3 Sum of the squares of the data
4 Sum of the data
5 Count of the data items
STD.DEVIATION; 6 Sum of the squares of the data
7 Sum of the data
8 Count of the data items
AVERAGE; 9 Count of the data items
MEAN.SQUARES; 10 Count of the data items
These internal variable routine numbers listed in the above table and the variable size for
each host are shown in the following table.
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