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Subject: Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean
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On 2016-07-09 17:13, Michael Selik wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 10:17 AM Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> +1 for consistency
>
> What do other languages use?

R, the most likely candidate, doesn't have them built-in.

scipy.stats uses gmean() and hmean()

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Robert Kern

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