LearningRlab (version 2.4)

geometricMean_: Geometric Mean Function

Description

This function calculates the geometric mean of a numbers vector.

Usage

geometricMean_(x)

Value

A numeric, the geometric mean of the numbers vector.

Arguments

x

Should be a numbers vector

Author

Dennis Monheimius,
Eduardo Benito,
Juan Jose Cuadrado,
Universidad de Alcala de Henares

Details

To calculate the geometric mean of a dataset, the user should give a numbers vector. The result is the product of all vector elements raise to 1 divided by the number of elements. The arithmetic mean formule is the following:

Examples

  #data creation
  data = c(1:20)
  
  geometricMean_(data)