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# scipy.stats.mean

`scipy.stats.``mean`(a, axis=0)

  Returns the arithmetic mean of m along the given dimension.

  That is: (x1 + x2 + .. + xn) / n

  Parameters: | a : array axis : int or None
  Returns: | The arithmetic mean computed over a single dimension of the input array or : all values in the array if axis=None. The return value will have a floating : point dtype even if the input data are integers. :

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