geometricMean_: Geometric Mean Function

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geometricMean_R Documentation

Geometric Mean Function

Description

This function calculates the geometric mean of a numbers vector.

Usage

geometricMean_(x)

Arguments

x

Should be a numbers vector

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:
gmean.jpg

Value

A numeric, the geometric mean of the numbers vector.

Note

A vector is created by c(), like c(1,2,3,4,5) creates a vector with the numbers: 1,2,3,4,5

Author(s)

Dennis Monheimius, dennis.monhemimius@edu.uah.es
Eduardo Benito, eduardo.benito@edu.uah.es
Juan Jose Cuadrado, jjcg@uah.es
Universidad de Alcala de Henares

Examples

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

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