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The harmonic mean ( H ) of the lognormal distribution of a random variable X is [ 17 ] where μ and σ2 are the parameters of the distribution, i.e. the mean and variance of the distribution of the natural logarithm of X. The harmonic and arithmetic means of the distribution are related by.
QM-AM-GM-HM inequalities. 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.
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:
Definition and divergence. The harmonic series is the infinite series in which the terms are all of the positive unit fractions. It is a divergent series: as more terms of the series are included in partial sums of the series, the values of these partial sums grow arbitrarily large, beyond any finite limit.
The generalized mean, also known as the power mean or Hölder mean, is an abstraction of the quadratic, arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means. It is defined for a set of n positive numbers xi by. 1. By choosing different values for the parameter m, the following types of means are obtained: maximum of. quadratic mean.
Generalized mean. Plot of several generalized means . In mathematics, generalized means (or power mean or Hölder mean from Otto Hölder) [ 1 ] are a family of functions for aggregating sets of numbers. These include as special cases the Pythagorean means (arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means).
The arithmetic–geometric mean is used in fast algorithmsfor exponential, trigonometric functions, and other special functions, as well as some mathematical constants, in particular, computing π. The AGM is defined as the limit of the interdependent sequencesai{\displaystyle a_{i}}and gi{\displaystyle g_{i}}.
In mathematics, the n -th harmonic number is the sum of the reciprocals of the first n natural numbers: [1] Starting from n = 1, the sequence of harmonic numbers begins: Harmonic numbers are related to the harmonic mean in that the n -th harmonic number is also n times the reciprocal of the harmonic mean of the first n positive integers.