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Given a set of data, X={x
1
, x
2
, ..., x
n
} and corresponding weights, W={w
1
, w
2
, ..., w
n
} the
weighted mean
is calculated as
Note that if all the weights are equal, the weighted mean is the same as the
arithmetic mean
.
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--
central tendency
See also:
average