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From: Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean
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On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, 12:57 PM Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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()
>

SciPy also uses other obscure abbreviations. My least favorite is "eye".

My first thought at reading "hmean" might be horizontal mean, especially if
there were a vmean.

>