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harmonic mean
Updated on 04/19/2018
a measure of
central tendency
. It is computed for
n
scores by dividing the scores by the sum of their
reciprocals
; that is,
n
divided by the sum of 1/
x
1
+ 1/
x
2
+ 1/
x
n
. See also
geometric mean
;
mean
.
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