mean

Scilab Function
Last update : 18/11/2005

mean - mean (row mean, column mean) of vector/matrix entries

### Calling Sequence

  `y=mean(x)`
  `y=mean(x,'r')`
  `y=mean(x,'c')`
  `y=mean(x,'m')`

### Parameters

- `x`: real vector or matrix
- `y`: scalar or vector

### Description

For a vector or a matrix `x`, `y=mean(x)` returns in the scalar `y` the mean of all the entries of `x`.

`y=mean(x,'r')` (or, equivalently, `y=mean(x,1)`) is the rowwise mean. It returns a row vector: `y(j)= mean(x(:,j))`

`y=mean(x,'c')` (or, equivalently, `y=mean(x,2)`) is the columnwise mean. It returns a column vector: `y(i)= mean(x(i,:))`

`y=mean(x,'m')` is the mean along the first non singleton dimension of x (for compatibility with Matlab).

### Examples

    A=[1,2,10;7,7.1,7.01];
    mean(A)
    mean(A,'r')
    mean(A,'c')
    A=matrix(1:12,[1,1,2,3,2]);
    // in this case mean(A,'m') is equivalent to mean(A,3), the first non singleton dimension of A
    y=mean(A,'m')

### See Also

`sum`, `median`, `st_deviation`,