harmean

Last update : 20/12/2004

harmean - harmonic mean

### Calling Sequence

  `hm=harmean(x)`
  `hm=harmean(x,'r')(or, equivalently, hm=harmean(x,1))`
  `hm=harmean(x,'c')(or, equivalently, hm=harmean(x,2))`

### Parameters

- `x` : real or complex vector or matrix

### Description

This function computes the harmonic mean of a vector or matrix `x` . For a vector or matrix `x` , `hm=harmean(x)` returns in scalar `hm` the harmonic mean of all the entries of `x` .

`hm=harmean(x,'r')` (or, equivalently, `hm=harmean(x,1)` ) returns in each entry of the row vector `hm` the harmonic mean of each column of `x` .

`hm=harmean(x,'c')` (or, equivalently, `hm=harmean(x,2)` ) returns in each entry of the column vector `hm` the harmonic mean of each row of `x` .

### Author

Carlos Klimann

### Bibliography

Wonacott, T.H. & Wonacott, R.J.; Introductory Statistics, fifth edition, J.Wiley & Sons, 1990.