Mean

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Mean

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The operator can be placed on the canvas in two ways:

From the Statistics (``statistics'') toolbar $\resizebox{!}{2ex}{\includegraphics{images/mean}}% WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=14$ ; or
By typing the letters ``mean'' on the canvas and then pressing the Enter key

Returns the mean (or average) along a named dimension of all elements present. If the dimension is not named, then the mean is over all elements present in the tensor. Note that missing elements are not counted.