LearningRlab (version 2.4)

harmonicMean_ : Harmonic Mean Function

Description

This function calculates the harmonic mean of a numbers vector.

Usage

harmonicMean_ (x)

Value

Numeric, the harmonic mean of the numbers vector.

Arguments

x

Should be a numbers vector

Author

Jose Manuel Gomez Caceres,
Juan Jose Cuadrado,
Universidad de Alcala de Henares

Details

To calculate the harmonic mean, the user should give a numbers vector. The result is calculated by dividing the number of observations by the reciprocal of each number in the vector. The harmonic mean formule is the following:

Examples

    #data creation
    data = c(1,4,3,3,2,5,7,12,1,2,3,12)
    
    harmonicMean_(data)