matlab geomean,Geometric mean

Find the geometric mean along different operating dimensions and vectors of dimensions for a multidimensional array.

Create a 3-by-5-by-2 array X.

X = reshape(1:30,[3 5 2])

X =

X(:,:,1) =

1 4 7 10 13

2 5 8 11 14

3 6 9 12 15

X(:,:,2) =

16 19 22 25 28

17 20 23 26 29

18 21 24 27 30

Find the geometric mean of X along the default dimension.

gmean1 = geomean(X)

gmean1 =

gmean1(:,:,1) =

1.8171 4.9324 7.9581 10.9696 13.9761

gmean1(:,:,2) =

16.9804 19.9833 22.9855 25.9872 28.9885

By default, geomean operates along the first dimension of X whose size does not equal 1. In this case, this dimension is the first dimension of X. Therefore, gmean1 is a 1-by-5-by-2 array.

Find the geometric mean of X along the second dimension.

gmean2 = geomean(X,2)

gmean2 =

gmean2(:,:,1) =

5.1549

6.5784

7.8155

gmean2(:,:,2) =

21.5814

22.6004

23.6177

gmean2 is a 3-by-1-by-2 array.

Find the geometric mean of X along the third dimension.

gmean3 = geomean(X,3)

gmean3 = 3×5

4.0000 8.7178 12.4097 15.8114 19.0788

5.8310 10.0000 13.5647 16.9115 20.1494

7.3485 11.2250 14.6969 18.0000 21.2132

gmean3 is a 3-by-5 array.

Find the geometric mean of each page of X by specifying the first and second dimensions using the vecdim input argument.

mpage = geomean(X,[1 2])

mpage =

mpage(:,:,1) =

6.4234

mpage(:,:,2) =

22.5845

For example, mpage(1,1,2) is the geometric mean of the elements in X(:,:,2).

Find the geometric mean of the elements in each X(i,:,:) slice by specifying the second and third dimensions.

mrow = geomean(X,[2 3])

mrow = 3×1

10.5475

12.1932

13.5862

For example, mrow(3) is the geometric mean of the elements in X(3,:,:), and is equivalent to specifying geomean(X(3,:,:),'all').