Geometric mean

From Glossary of Meteorology



geometric mean

For n positive numbers, the positive nth root of their product; that is, for the set of positive numbers x1, x2, . . ., xn, the geometric mean is the quantity (x1x2 · · · xn)1/n.


Compare arithmetic mean.


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