< Handbook of Descriptive Statistics < Measures of Central Tendency

Harmonic mean is most commonly preferred when the data is given in terms of speed (e.g. km/hour), rate (e.g. kg/rupee) etc. The harmonic mean is defined as the reciprocal of arithmetic mean of reciprocals of the items in a given series.

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