In math and statistics, the mean is the average of a list of numbers. The mean is calculated as:-
The sum of observations / the number of observations
With Python it is easy to calculate the mean of a list of numbers because there are libraries that contain functions to calculate the mean. For example, Python has a library, statistics, that will automatically compute the mean.
Wouldn’t it be nice, however, to be able to calculate the mean using basic mathematical steps? It is not difficult to calculate the mean in Python, and the screenshot below provides the code to do so:-
Although there are methods that will compute the mean, it is important to know the procedure to calculate this statistic in order to gain a better under standing of mathematics and computer programming.
