2025-04-19 08:14 UTC
@DarrinLRogers@fediscience.org drat, I was about to respond with something witty about geometric mean vs arithmetic mean..
But felt I should check which other "means" to throw in and .. lo, there are way more than I thought.
Means:
- Arithmetic
- Geometric
- Cubic
- Generalized/power
- Harmonic
- Contraharmonic
- Heronian
- Heinz
- Lehmer
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tendency
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@DarrinLRogers@fediscience.org 2025-05-23 13:38
@geraldew@fosstodon.org Oh yes. The mean rabbit hole goes deep, and it's only a branch of the larger "measures of central tendency" rabbit hole. Statisticians love making up new statistics.