Getting a mean of only the numbers

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Evelyn
Evelyn on 9 Oct 2014
Commented: Evelyn on 9 Oct 2014
I have a dataset and I want the mean value of the numbers. There are a lot of NaN-values in there and I want to ignore those (the code
mean(data)
now gives 'NaN' as answer) How do I do this?

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Mischa Kim
Mischa Kim on 9 Oct 2014
Evelyn, use
mean(data(~isnan(data)))

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Thorsten
Thorsten on 9 Oct 2014
Use nanmean
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Mischa Kim
Mischa Kim on 9 Oct 2014
That's another option. You need to have access to the Statistics Toolbox though.

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