Counters in Analytic views

Hello,

There is an option to create counter type measures with calc views that perform a count distinct of e.g materials, customer etc. However, there is no such option with an analytic view. I would hate to create a calc view just to use the counter feature of calc views. Is there an opportunity to create a calculated measure in an analytic view and write the SQL to do a count distinct in the expression editor?

Thanks,