RE: Mean
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- Subject: [mg32983] RE: [mg32981] Mean
- From: "Wolf, Hartmut" <Hartmut.Wolf at t-systems.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 02:37:59 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: poonam_pandey at hotmail.com [SMTP:poonam_pandey at hotmail.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:49 AM
> Subject: [mg32981] Mean
>
> << Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics`
>
> data = {4.3, 7.2, 8.4, 5.8, 9.2, 3.9}
> {4.3, 7.2, 8.4, 5.8, 9.2, 3.9}
>
> Mean[data]
> Mean[{4.3, 7.2, 8.4, 5.8, 9.2, 3.9}]
>
> Variance[data]
> 4.69467
>
> I took this code exactly as in the help browser. Tried this in my
> notebook. Why do I not get an answer for Mean? I get an answer for
> Variance, and I also see an answer for Mean in the help browser for
> the same data.
>
[Hartmut Wolf]
After loading the descriptive Statistics package, did you get this message?
In[3]:= <<Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics`
>From In[3]:=
Mean::shdw: Symbol Mean appears in multiple contexts \
{Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics`,Global`}; definitions in context \
Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics` may shadow or be shadowed by other \
definitions.
If yes, you presumably had tried Mean before loading. Proof that
In[6]:= ?Mean
Global`Mean
So remove that spurious symbol
In[7]:= Remove[Mean]
In[8]:= Mean[data]
Out[8]= 6.46667