Tell me the method, I'll give you the mean

American Statistician

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 322-327

  Lann, Avital ^a   Falk, Ruma ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Harmonic mean; Self weighted mean; Uniformity heuristic; Weighted average

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750899491     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313006X151460     Document Type: Article

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