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eliminate values while caculating Mean[data]

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• Subject: [mg91946] eliminate values while caculating Mean[data]
• From: "Pasha Karami" <karami at geo.uu.nl>
• Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:57:55 -0400 (EDT)

Dear all,

An easy question:
I would like to make an average of a data file.I know that we can use
Mean function for this.

However, I want to  eliminate some values from my data.For example if I have

data={1,2,3,4,5,0,0,0}
Mean[data] would be 15/8

I do not want the "zero" values in my Mean function (i.e.I want the mean
value to be 3 in the above example) How can I do this?

Thank you!
Best,
Pasha

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