distinctCount
static int distinctCount(long numVals,
                         int[] freqCounts,
                         long nRows,
                         long sampleSize)
Peter J. Haas, Jeffrey F. Naughton, S. Seshadri, and Lynne Stokes. Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of
 Distinct Values of an Attribute. VLDB'95, Section 3.2.
- Parameters:
 
numVals - The number of unique values in the sample 
freqCounts - The inverse histogram of frequencies. counts extracted 
nRows - The original number of rows in the entire input 
sampleSize - The number of rows in the sample 
- Returns:
 
- an estimation of number of distinct values.