pyhctsa.operations.distribution.mean¶

pyhctsa.operations.distribution.mean(y, mean_type='arithmetic')¶

A given measure of location of a data vector.

Parameters:¶

y : array-like¶

Input time series or data vector

mean_type : str, optional¶

Type of mean to calculate. Default is ‘arithmtic’:

• ’norm’ or ‘arithmetic’: standard arithmetic mean

• ’median’: middle value (50th percentile)

• ’geom’: geometric mean (nth root of product)

• ’harm’: harmonic mean (reciprocal of mean of reciprocals)

• ’rms’: root mean square (quadratic mean)

• ’iqm’: interquartile mean (mean of values between Q1 and Q3)

• ’midhinge’: average of first and third quartiles

Returns:¶

The calculated mean value.

Return type:¶

float