Bug 105032 - EDITING ENHANCEMENT Add an alias function "mean" for "average"
Summary: EDITING ENHANCEMENT Add an alias function "mean" for "average"
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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3.3.0 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: needsDevAdvice
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Blocks: Calc-Function
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Reported: 2017-01-01 18:00 UTC by jpeacock29
Modified: 2017-07-23 22:31 UTC (History)
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Description jpeacock29 2017-01-01 18:00:04 UTC 
Description:
Much common statistical software uses the name `mean` rather than `average` for the function that returns a arithmetic mean of a collection of numbers (eg, STATA, R, Mathematica). To make using LibreOffice Calc easier for users of other statistical software, I propose adding an alias `mean` for the `average` function. In this way, users could type either `mean()` or `average()` for the same results.

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Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2017-01-08 10:17:47 UTC 
Sounds reasonable since in bug 86645 harmean() and geomean() is requested not haravg(). There is also a confusion with pivot table labels in bug 71111.