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Calculate the mean of an array across dimension with lists of different length
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Hello, 

I have a list of lists and I need to calculate the mean across the dimension. The problem is that the sublists are all of different length. For example:

array=[[5,2,1],[2,1],[3,4,2,1]]

So in this case I am looking for the following result: 

mean=[3.333, 2.333, 1.5, 1] #[(5+2+2)/3, (2+1+4)/3, (1+2)/2, 1/1]

I found that this can be done with numpy.ma.mean. As far as I understood I have to combine all my sublists into one masked array. 

But I cannot figure out how to do it, taking into account that the number of sublists in an array and the length of sublists is always different.

Thanks in advance
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Calculate the mean of an array across dimension with lists of different length - by rakhmadiev - Aug-01-2017, 12:49 AM

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