Three Averages - Ordered by Comparing Areas


Authors: 
Avital Lann
Volume: 
30 (1)
Pages: 
online
Year: 
2008
Publisher: 
Teaching Statistics
URL: 
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00294.x
Abstract: 

This short article gives a geometrical interpretation of the relationship between the harmonic mean, the arithmetic mean and the self-weighted mean.

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