Algebraic means

Algebraic means (Italian - medie di potenze) were an interest of Bonferroni's. He wrote extensively on them in his textbook and also published a short article on a generalisation of them. The usual algebraic mean of order or degree p of x1 ... xn (positive), defined as


Mp = æ
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Sp
n
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[1/p]

 
,    Sp = x1p+ ... + xnp
Many well known means are special cases
pName
-infinity Minimum
-1Harmonic
0Geometric
1Arithmetic
2Quadratic
infinityMaximum
I have prepared a translation of his article on a generalisation of algebraic means.

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