Examples

Select two-box region: box 1 (bottom-left coord is 2,3 and top-right coord is 14,15) and box 2 (bottom-left coord is 30,31 and top-right coord is 42,43)

imstat('myImage', box='2,3,14,15;30,31,42,43')

Select the same two box regions but only channels 4 and 5

imstat('myImage', box='2,3,14,15;30,31,42,43', chan='4~5')

Select all channels greater than 20 as well as channel 0, then the mean and standard deviation are printed

results = imstat('myImage', chans='>20;0')
print "Mean is: ", results['mean'], " s.d. ", results['sigma']

Find statistical information for the Q stokes value only, then the I stokes values only, and printing out the statistical values that we are interested in

s1 = imstat('myimage', stokes='Q')
s2 = imstat('myimage', stokes='I')
print " | MIN | MAX | MEAN"
print " Q | ",s1['min'][0]," | ",s1['max'][0]," | ",," | ",s1['mean'][0]
print " I | ",s2['min'][0]," | ",s2['max'][0]," | ",," | ",s2['mean'][0]

Evaluate statistics for each spectral plane in an ra x dec x frequency image

myim = "noisy.im"

# generate an image
ia.fromshape(myim, [20,30,40])
# give pixels non-zero values
ia.addnoise()
ia.done()
# These are the display axes, the calculation of statistics occurs
# for each (hyper)plane along axes not listed in the axes parameter,
# in this case axis 2 (the frequency axis)
# display the rms for each frequency plane (your mileage will vary with
# the values).
stats = imstat(imagename=myim, axes=[0,1])

 Printing the produced statistics using the desired KEY

CASA <1>:stats["rms"]
  Out[10]:
array([ 0.99576014, 1.03813124, 0.97749186, 0.97587883, 1.04189885,
        1.03784776, 1.03371549, 1.03153074, 1.00841606, 0.947155 ,
        0.97335404, 0.94389403, 1.0010221 , 0.97151822, 1.03942156,
        1.01158476, 0.96957082, 1.04212773, 1.00589049, 0.98696715,
        1.00451481, 1.02307892, 1.03102005, 0.97334671, 0.95209879,
        1.02088714, 0.96999902, 0.98661619, 1.01039267, 0.96842754,
        0.99464947, 1.01536798, 1.02466023, 0.96956468, 0.98090756,
        0.9835844 , 0.95698935, 1.05487967, 0.99846411, 0.99634868])