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In case people aren't aware, the inequality of these specific four means is a special case of the more general power mean inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by Sniffnoy 7mo ago
In case people aren't aware, the inequality of these specific four means is a special case of the more general power mean inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_mean#Generalized_mean_inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_mean#Generalized_m...
- abnry 7mo agoWhich IIRC are all a consequence of Jensen's inequality.
- arjvik 7mo agoThis I didn’t know!
- cubefox 7mo agoI think this is not quite right as stated there because the root mean square (quadratic mean) is always positive or 0 while the arithmetic mean can be negative, making it smaller. I guess the inequality only holds for positive numbers. That's actually one argument for not calling the root mean square a "mean", because a mean should arguably have the property that it is always a number between the largest and smallest value. But the RMS of two negative numbers is positive. (On the other hand, the median would qualify as a mean in this sense, even though it is not a "power mean".)