scipy.stats.Mixture.
mean#
- Mixture.mean(*, method=None)[source]#
Mean (raw first moment about the origin)
- Parameters:
- method{None, ‘formula’, ‘transform’, ‘quadrature’, ‘cache’}
Method used to calculate the raw first moment. Not all methods are available for all distributions. See
moment
for details.
References
[1]Mean, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean#Mean_of_a_probability_distribution
Examples
Instantiate a distribution with the desired parameters:
>>> from scipy import stats >>> X = stats.Normal(mu=1., sigma=2.)
Evaluate the variance:
>>> X.mean() 1.0 >>> X.mean() == X.moment(order=1, kind='raw') == X.mu True