Source code for simplestatistics.statistics.mean

"""
Implements mean() function.
"""

# I need sane division that returns a float not int
from __future__ import division

from .decimalize import decimalize

[docs]def mean(data): """ The mean_, or *average*, is "the sum of values divided by the number of values". .. _mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean Equation: .. math:: \\bar{X} = \\frac{\\sum X}{n} Args: data: A numeric built-in object, a tuple, or list of numeric objects. Returns: A float object. Examples: >>> mean([1]) 1.0 >>> mean([1, 2]) 1.5 >>> mean([1, 2, 3]) 2.0 >>> mean([-1, 0, 1, 2, 3]) 1.0 """ data = decimalize(data) return float(sum(data) / len(data))