Arithmetic mean of a sample.

Syntax

M = Mean(Data)

Argument

Name

Description

Data

Scalar, vector or matrix of samples of (real) numbers.

Output

Name

Description

M

The arithmetic mean.  If the input is a matrix, then the median of each column is returned in a vector.

Example

Find the mean of the data set [1,2,3,4,5,7].

Syntax

M = Mean([1,2,3,4,5,7])

Result

M = 3.66

See Also:

GeoMean

Median

Descriptive Statistics