scholarly journals Unification Theories: Means and Generalized Euler Formulas

Axioms ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Radu Iordanescu ◽  
Florin Felix Nichita ◽  
Ovidiu Pasarescu

The main concepts in this paper are the means and Euler type formulas; the generalized mean which incorporates the harmonic mean, the geometric mean, the arithmetic mean, and the quadratic mean can be further generalized. Results on the Euler’s formula, the (modified) Yang–Baxter equation, coalgebra structures, and non-associative structures are also included in the current paper.

Author(s):  
William H Black ◽  
Lari B Masten

There is ongoing controversy in the business valuation literature regarding the preferability of the arithmetic mean or the harmonic mean when estimating ratios for use in business valuation. This research conducts a simulation using data reported from actual market transactions. Successive random samples were taken from data on valuation multiples and alternative measures of central tendency were calculated, accumulating more than 3.7 million data points. The measures (arithmetic mean, median, harmonic mean, geometric mean) were compared using hold-out sampling to identify which measure provided the closest approximation to actual results, evaluated in terms of least squares differences. Results indicated the harmonic mean delivered superior predictions to the other measures of central tendency, with less overstatement. Further, differences in sample size from 5 to 50 observations were evaluated to assess their impact on predictive performance. Results showed substantial improvements up to sample sizes of 20 or 25, with diminished improvements thereafter.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Juan A. Marin-Garcia ◽  
Julien Maheut ◽  
Julio J. Garcia Sabater

<p>We present the results of comparing various ways of calculating students' final grades from continuous assessment grades. Traditionally the weighted arithmetic mean has been used and we compare this method with other alternatives: arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean and multiplication of the percentage of overcoming of each activi-ty. Our objective is to verify, if any of the alternative methods, agree with the student’s performance proposed by the teacher of the subject, further discriminating the grade be-tween high and low learning outcomes and reducing the number of approved opportunists.</p><p> </p><p>[Comparación del efecto de diferentes modos de agregar las califica-ciones de evaluación continua en la nota final]</p>


1973 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
P. H. Diananda

Let {an} be a sequence of non-negative real numbers. Suppose thatThen M1,n is the arithmetic mean, MO,n the geometric mean, and Mr,n the generalized mean of order r, of a1, a2, …, an. By a result of Everitt [1] and McLaughlin and Metcalf [5], {n(Mr,n–Ms,n)}, where r ≧ l ≧ s, is a monotonic increasing sequence. It follows that this sequence tends to a finite or an infinite limit as n → ∞. Everitt [2, 3] found a necessary and sufficient condition for the finiteness of this limit in the cases r, s = 1, 0 and r ≧ 1 > s > 0. His results are included in the following theorem.


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