scipy.stats.gmean

scipy.stats.gmean(a, axis=0, dtype=None)

Compute the geometric mean along the specified axis.

Return the geometric average of the array elements. That is: n-th root of (x1 * x2 * ... * xn)

Parameters:

a : array_like

Input array or object that can be converted to an array.

axis : int or None, optional

Axis along which the geometric mean is computed. Default is 0. If None, compute over the whole array a.

dtype : dtype, optional

Type of the returned array and of the accumulator in which the elements are summed. If dtype is not specified, it defaults to the dtype of a, unless a has an integer dtype with a precision less than that of the default platform integer. In that case, the default platform integer is used.

Returns:

gmean : ndarray

see dtype parameter above

See also

numpy.mean

Arithmetic average

numpy.average

Weighted average

hmean

Harmonic mean

Notes

The geometric average is computed over a single dimension of the input array, axis=0 by default, or all values in the array if axis=None. float64 intermediate and return values are used for integer inputs.

Use masked arrays to ignore any non-finite values in the input or that arise in the calculations such as Not a Number and infinity because masked arrays automatically mask any non-finite values.

Examples

>>> from scipy.stats import gmean
>>> gmean([1, 4])
2.0
>>> gmean([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
3.3800151591412964