[[ml-metric-functions]]
=== Metric Functions

The {xpackml} features include the following metric functions:

* `min`
* `max`
* `mean`, `high_mean`, `low_mean`
* `metric`
* `varp`, `high_varp`, `low_varp`

The metric functions include mean, min and max. These values are calculated for each bucket.
Field values that cannot be converted to double precision floating point numbers
are ignored.

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metric:: all of mean, min, and max

mean:: arithmetic mean

high_mean::: arithmetic mean

low_mean::: arithmetic mean

median:: statistical median

min:: arithmetic minimum

max:: arithmetic maximum

varp:: population variance

high_varp::: ""

low_varp::: ""
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