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Mean

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

Mean[dist]
gives the mean of the symbolic distribution dist.

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

Mean handles both numerical and symbolic data.

Mean[{{x₁, y₁, ...}, {x₂, y₂, ...}, ...}] gives {Mean[{x₁, x₂, ...}], Mean[{y₁, y₂, ...}]}.

Mean works with SparseArray objects.

Basic Examples (4)

Mean of numeric values:

Mean of symbolic values:

Means of elements in each column:

Mean of a symbolic lognormal distribution:

Generalizations & Extensions (1)

Applications (3)

Properties & Relations (13)

Basic Statistics

Descriptive Statistics

Discrete Distributions

Continuous Distributions

Demonstrations with Mean (Wolfram Demonstrations Project)

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