Calculate Average or Mean of a matrix

a=[5 2;5 6;8 8]; How to calculate the average of this matrix using function?

Answer is like (5+5+8/3,2+6+8/3)

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try mean():

columnMeans = mean(a, 1)

Answer 2

[Maneet Kaur Bagga]

Hi, Minhaz Parveez

As per my understandig you want to calculate the mean of each coloumn of the matrix. By default MATLAB fuctions work on coloumns therefore you can use the mean function directly. Please refer to the code below. Hope it helps!

X = [5 2;5 6;8 8]

X = 3×2

5 2 5 6 8 8

mean(X)

ans = 1×2

6.0000 5.3333