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ApproximateQuantiles

Examples

Example: to compute the quartiles of a PCollection of integers, we would use ApproximateQuantiles.globally(5). This will produce a list containing 5 values: the minimum value, Quartile 1 value, Quartile 2 value, Quartile 3 value, and the maximum value.

Related transforms

• [ApproximateUnique]({{ site.baseurl }}/documentation/transforms/java/aggregation/approximateunique) estimates the number of distinct elements or distinct values in key-value pairs
• [Combine]({{ site.baseurl }}/documentation/transforms/java/aggregation/combine)