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+## Copyright (C) 2001 Paul Kienzle <pkienzle@users.sf.net>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{v} =} nanmean (@var{X})
+## @deftypefnx{Function File} {@var{v} =} nanmean (@var{X}, @var{dim})
+## Compute the mean value while ignoring NaN values.
+##
+## @code{nanmean} is identical to the @code{mean} function except that NaN values
+## are ignored. If all values are NaN, the mean is returned as NaN.
+##
+## @seealso{mean, nanmin, nanmax, nansum, nanmedian}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function v = nanmean (X, varargin)
+ if nargin < 1
+ print_usage;
+ else
+ n = sum (!isnan(X), varargin{:});
+ n(n == 0) = NaN;
+ X(isnan(X)) = 0;
+ v = sum (X, varargin{:}) ./ n;
+ endif
+endfunction