diff --git a/src/reduce.jl b/src/reduce.jl
index 50dedf542..7905c133c 100644
--- a/src/reduce.jl
+++ b/src/reduce.jl
@@ -170,3 +170,23 @@ Base.stdm(A::DataArray, m::Number; corrected::Bool=true, skipna::Bool=false) =
 
 Base.std(A::DataArray; corrected::Bool=true, mean=nothing, skipna::Bool=false) = 
     sqrt(var(A; corrected=corrected, mean=mean, skipna=skipna))
+
+## weighted mean
+
+function Base.mean{W,V}(a::DataArray, w::WeightVec{W,V}; skipna::Bool=false)
+    if skipna
+        v = a .* w.values
+        sum(v; skipna=true) / sum(DataArray(w.values, v.na); skipna=true)
+    else
+        anyna(a) ? NA : mean(a.data, w)
+    end
+end
+
+function Base.mean{W,V<:DataArray}(a::DataArray, w::WeightVec{W,V}; skipna::Bool=false)
+    if skipna
+        v = a .* w.values
+        sum(v; skipna=true) / sum(DataArray(w.values.data, v.na); skipna=true)
+    else
+        anyna(a) || anyna(w.values) ? NA : wsum(a.data, w.values.data) / w.sum
+    end
+end
diff --git a/test/reduce.jl b/test/reduce.jl
index 8f6ad8c96..958a4e6bc 100644
--- a/test/reduce.jl
+++ b/test/reduce.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module TestReduce
-using DataArrays, Base.Test
+using DataArrays, Base.Test, StatsBase
 
 srand(1337)
 
@@ -132,4 +132,21 @@ end
 @test !reduce(&, @data([false, NA]))
 @test reduce(|, @data([true, NA]))
 @test isna(reduce(|, @data([false, NA])))
+
+# weighted mean
+da1 = DataArray(randn(128))
+da2 = DataArray(randn(128))
+@same_behavior mean(da1, weights(da2)) mean(da1.data, weights(da2.data))
+@same_behavior mean(da1, weights(da2.data)) mean(da1.data, weights(da2.data))
+@same_behavior mean(da1, weights(da2); skipna=true) mean(da1.data, weights(da2.data))
+@same_behavior mean(da1, weights(da2.data); skipna=true) mean(da1.data, weights(da2.data))
+
+da1[1:3:end] = NA
+@same_behavior mean(da1, weights(da2); skipna=true) mean(dropna(da1), weights(da2.data[!da1.na]))
+@same_behavior mean(da1, weights(da2.data); skipna=true) mean(dropna(da1), weights(da2.data[!da1.na]))
+
+da2[1:2:end] = NA
+keep = !da1.na & !da2.na
+@test isna(mean(da1, weights(da2)))
+@same_behavior mean(da1, weights(da2); skipna=true) mean(da1.data[keep], weights(da2.data[keep]))
 end