Within a Power BI data model, the Orders table stores each transaction in the column Orders[TotalAmount]. You must create a measure that returns the population standard deviation of the square root of every order amount while honoring the current filter context in a report. Which DAX function should you use to meet this requirement in a single expression?
STDEVX.P evaluates an expression for every row in a supplied table and then returns the population standard deviation of those evaluated values. Because the requirement involves first transforming each value with SQRT and then calculating a population standard deviation, STDEVX.P(Orders, SQRT(Orders[TotalAmount])) fulfills the need. STDEV.P can only reference an existing column, not an expression, so it cannot incorporate the square-root transformation. STDEVP is an Excel function name and is not valid DAX. VARX.P performs variance, not standard deviation, and therefore does not satisfy the requirement.
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