Geometric vs. Arithmetic Mean: What’s the difference?

Anyi Guo
4 min readJan 17, 2022
Part 4 of the Learn Stats with Bayes series

There are multiple ways to calculate the mean of a dataset:

▹ Arithmetic mean — this is the method that we are most familiar with and taught in schools.

▹ Geometric mean — this is the topic of the following post

Harmonic mean

Definition of Geometric Mean

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Anyi Guo

Head of Data Science @ UW. This is my notepad for thoughts on stats, data science and ML.