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Re: Average the same elements of the list

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• Subject: [mg130881] Re: Average the same elements of the list
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 04:08:17 -0400 (EDT)
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You didn't specify what to return in case the first elements of the 
sublists are NOT all the same; let's return the entire original list in 
this case. Then perhaps something like the following will do.

   op[lis_] :=
                If[And @@ MapThread[Equal, First /@ lis],
                   {First@First@lis, Mean[Last /@ lis]},
                   lis]

   op[{ {{2, 5, -1}, d1}, {{2, 5, -1}, d2}}]
(* { {2, 5, -1}, (d1 + d2)/2 } *)

   op[{{{2, 5, -1}, d1}, {{2, 9, -1}, d2}}]
(*  {{{2, 5, -1}, d1}, {{2, 9, -1}, d2}}  *)

Undoubtedly the code can be shortened.

On May 22, 2013, at 2:18 AM, BBabic <bipsich101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have list which is something like
> data={
> {{a1,b1,c1},d1},{{a2,b2,c2},d2}}
> I would like to get new list which gets average of the second elements if the first elements in the sublists are all the same.
> Namely if a1=a2,b1=b2,c1=c2
> new list would look like
> datanew={{a1,b1,c1},Mean[{d1,d2}]
> Is there an elegant way to do this ?
> Thanks!

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