pyriemann.utils.mean.mean_riemann¶

pyriemann.utils.mean.mean_riemann(covmats, tol=1e-08, maxiter=50, init=None, sample_weight=None)[source]¶

Return the mean covariance matrix according to the Riemannian metric.

The procedure is similar to a gradient descent minimizing the sum of riemannian distance to the mean.

\[\mathbf{C} = \arg\min{(\sum_i \delta_R ( \mathbf{C} , \mathbf{C}_i)^2)}\]

Parameters:	covmats – Covariance matrices set, Ntrials X Nchannels X Nchannels tol – the tolerance to stop the gradient descent maxiter – The maximum number of iteration, default 50 init – A covariance matrix used to initialize the gradient descent. If None the Arithmetic mean is used sample_weight – the weight of each sample
Returns:	the mean covariance matrix