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Built-in Functions

Numerical Computation

Data Manipulation

Mean

Usage

• Mean[list] gives the statistical mean of the elements in list.

Notes

• Mean[list] is equivalent to Total[list]/Length[list].

• Mean handles both numerical and symbolic data.

• Mean[{{

,

, ... }, {

,

, ... }, ... }] gives {Mean[{

,

, ... }], Mean[{

,

, ... }]}.

• Mean works with SparseArray objects.

• See Section 1.6.7, Section 3.2.15 and Section 3.8.1.

• See also: Total, StandardDeviation, Variance, Median, Rescale.

• Related packages: Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics`, Statistics`MultiDescriptiveStatistics`.

• New in Version 5.

Further Examples

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