From: ktm@rice.edu <ktm@rice.edu>
To: Jira, Marcel <Marcel.Jira@wu.ac.at>
Cc: 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org' <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Select random lines of a table using a probability distribution
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:58:10 -0500
Message-ID: <20110713135810.GA1874@staff-mud-56-27.rice.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D793F5C522F1DD40BB9DC43586C57637E098CC87C6@MBX-B.ad.wu-wien.ac.at>
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 03:27:10PM +0200, Jira, Marcel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Let's consider I have a table like this
>
> id qualification gender age income
>
> I'd like to select (for example 100) lines of this table by random, but the random mechanism has to follow a certain probability distribution.
>
> I want to use this procedure to construct a test group for another selection.
>
> Example:
>
> I filter all lines having the qualification "plumber".
> I get 50 different ids consisting of 40 males, 10 females and a certain age distribution.
>
> I also get some information concerning the income of the plumbers.
>
> Now I want to know if the income is more influenced by the gender and age distribution or by the qualification "plumber".
>
> Therefore I would like to select a test group (of 50 or more) without any plumbers. This test group has to follow the same age and gender distribution.
>
> Then I would be able to compare this groups income statistics with the plumbers income statistics.
>
> Is this possible (and doable with reasonable effort) in PostgreSQL?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marcel Jira
>
You may want to take a look at pl/R which make the R system available to
PostgreSQL as a function language.
Regards,
Ken
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