Re: How Functions are Applied to Matrices
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- Subject: [mg66095] Re: How Functions are Applied to Matrices
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:40:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Greg,
If you read the Help section for Mean you will see that this is the
way Mean is defined. For matrices it operates on the columns. This
would make sense since if you are taking a set of data points
{{x1,y1,z1},{x2,y2,z2},{x3,y3,z3}}
then you might want Mean[{x1,x2,x3}] etc
Cheers,
Brian