## Copyright (C) 2000 Kai Habel <kai.habel@gmx.de>
##
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## version.
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{m}=} mean2 (@var{I})
## Compute the mean value of the 2D image @var{I}.
##
## Note that @var{m} will be of class double, independently of the input class.
## This is equivalent to @code{mean (I(:))}.
##
## @seealso{mean, std2}
## @end deftypefn

function m = mean2 (I)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage();
  elseif (!isimage (I) || ndims (I) != 2)
    error("mean2: argument must be a 2D image");
  endif
  m = mean (I(:));
endfunction
