Re: Basic Stat Question
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- Subject: [mg42637] Re: Basic Stat Question
- From: "AngleWyrm" <no_spam_anglewyrm at hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 05:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Last post had some spurrious leftovers in it, so here's a corrected version: dataBase = { {3.5, 5, "M"}, {4.8, 6, "F"}, {5.2, 12, "F"} }; subSet = Select[dataBase, Function[#1[[3]] == "F"] ] Apply[Mean, subSet[[All, 2]]] -- -Jonathan <Moranresearch at aol.com> wrote in message news:bf5koe$mig$1 at smc.vnet.net... > I have a list l1= {{xi,yi}} > I want to find the Mean xi where s <y < t > for a series of s and t. > > So say I have the height of a million children and I want to know the average > height at age 1, 2, 3...18. How do I do this? > > Also the data a field "Gender" how do I select the subset "Girls" or "Boys" > to analyze. > Thank you. > > John > >