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.

See also

moment
median
mode

References

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