how to do mean of a column with a loop and excluding nans?

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so i have this large file that is contains nans randomly, its a 1140 X 1 matrix i want to do a for loop that excludes all the nans and do the mean of that can someone explain me how to do this?

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Birdman
Birdman on 16 Mar 2018
Edited: Birdman on 16 Mar 2018
You do not need a for loop. Matlab's mean function has an option of omitnan. You can use it as follows:
res=mean(a,'omitnan')
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tonyrodriguez
tonyrodriguez on 16 Mar 2018
that works thank you! .. but can you explain me what the res do? can you do without it? and just count? since in my class we have only used count... and perhaps do at the end mean(isnan(a(i)) ?
Birdman
Birdman on 16 Mar 2018
res is used to sum up the variables that are not NaN, that is it. You need a variable to sum up the variables that are not NaN in a for loop, therefore you need it and cnt simply counts how many times that if statement is entered.

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