diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 94601ea..247d85c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <groupId>net.sourceforge.streamsupport</groupId>
     <artifactId>jamu</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <version>1.4.2</version>
+    <version>1.4.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>JAMU</name>
     <description>Java Matrix Utilities built on top of Intel MKL</description>
     <url>https://github.com/stefan-zobel/JAMU/</url>
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/jamu/matrix/Matrices.java b/src/main/java/net/jamu/matrix/Matrices.java
index 8fe9a75..abba85e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/jamu/matrix/Matrices.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/jamu/matrix/Matrices.java
@@ -3510,7 +3510,7 @@ public static ComplexMatrixF sumRows(ComplexMatrixF A) {
      * @since 1.4.2
      */
     public static MatrixD rowsAverage(MatrixD A) {
-        return sumRows(A).scaleInplace(A.numRows());
+        return sumRows(A).scaleInplace(1.0 / A.numRows());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -3524,7 +3524,7 @@ public static MatrixD rowsAverage(MatrixD A) {
      * @since 1.4.2
      */
     public static MatrixF rowsAverage(MatrixF A) {
-        return sumRows(A).scaleInplace(A.numRows());
+        return sumRows(A).scaleInplace(1.0f / A.numRows());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -3656,7 +3656,7 @@ public static ComplexMatrixF sumColumns(ComplexMatrixF A) {
      * @since 1.4.2
      */
     public static MatrixD colsAverage(MatrixD A) {
-        return sumColumns(A).scaleInplace(A.numColumns());
+        return sumColumns(A).scaleInplace(1.0 / A.numColumns());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -3670,7 +3670,7 @@ public static MatrixD colsAverage(MatrixD A) {
      * @since 1.4.2
      */
     public static MatrixF colsAverage(MatrixF A) {
-        return sumColumns(A).scaleInplace(A.numColumns());
+        return sumColumns(A).scaleInplace(1.0f / A.numColumns());
     }
 
     private static boolean checkApproxEqualArgs(MatrixDimensions A, MatrixDimensions B, double relTol, double absTol) {