scipy.stats.Normal.

mean

Normal.mean(*, method=None)

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

[1]

Mean, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean#Mean_of_a_probability_distribution

Examples

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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

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