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Since the harmonic mean of a list of numbers tends strongly toward the least elements of the list, it tends (compared to the arithmetic mean) to mitigate the impact of large outliers and aggravate the impact of small ones. The arithmetic mean is often mistakenly used in places calling for the harmonic mean. [6]
In mathematics, the QM-AM-GM-HM inequalities, also known as the mean inequality chain, state the relationship between the harmonic mean, geometric mean, arithmetic mean, and quadratic mean (also known as root mean square). Suppose that ,, …, are positive real numbers. Then
In mathematics, the geometric–harmonic mean M(x, y) of two positive real numbers x and y is defined as follows: we form the geometric mean of g 0 = x and h 0 = y and call it g 1, i.e. g 1 is the square root of xy. We also form the harmonic mean of x and y and call it h 1, i.e. h 1 is the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of ...
The arithmetic mean, or less precisely the average, of a list of n numbers x 1, x 2, . . . , x n is the sum of the numbers divided by n: + + +. The geometric mean is similar, except that it is only defined for a list of nonnegative real numbers, and uses multiplication and a root in place of addition and division:
The geometric mean is one of the three classical Pythagorean means, together with the arithmetic mean and the harmonic mean. For all positive data sets containing at least one pair of unequal values, the harmonic mean is always the least of the three means, while the arithmetic mean is always the greatest of the three and the geometric mean is ...
The geometric mean of two positive numbers is never greater than the arithmetic mean. [3] So the geometric means are an increasing sequence g 0 ≤ g 1 ≤ g 2 ≤ ...; the arithmetic means are a decreasing sequence a 0 ≥ a 1 ≥ a 2 ≥ ...; and g n ≤ M(x, y) ≤ a n for any n. These are strict inequalities if x ≠ y. M(x, y) is thus a ...
A geometric construction of the quadratic mean and the Pythagorean means (of two numbers a and b). Harmonic mean denoted by H, geometric by G, arithmetic by A and quadratic mean (also known as root mean square) denoted by Q. Comparison of the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means of a pair of numbers.
Comparison of the arithmetic mean, median, and mode of two skewed distributions Geometric visualization of the mode, median and mean of an arbitrary probability density function [5] In descriptive statistics , the mean may be confused with the median , mode or mid-range , as any of these may incorrectly be called an "average" (more formally, a ...