Notes CHAPTER # 03 I.C.

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Statistics MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY OR AVERAGES Part I
Harmonic Mean:-
The reciprocal of the mean of reciprocals of the observations is called Harmonic Mean.
It is computed by following formula:

For Ungroup Data For Group Data

H .M =
n
H .M =
∑f
1
∑X ∑X
f

Question # 1: Find Harmonic Mean from the following ungroup data:

2, 4, 6, 8, 10.

1
X
X
1
2 = 0.5
2
1
4 = 0.25
4
1
6 = 0.17
6
1
8 = 0.125
8
1
10 = 0.10
10
1
∑ X = 1.145
n
H .M =
1
∑X
5
=
1.145
H .M = 4.36

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Notes CHAPTER # 03 I.C.S
Statistics MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY OR AVERAGES Part I
Question # 2: Find Harmonic Mean from the following group data:

Groups 1–5 6 – 10 11 – 15 16 – 20 21 – 25
Frequency 4 8 10 6 2

Groups Frequency Mid Points

f
f X
X
1+ 5 4
1–5 4 =3 = 1.33
2 3
6 + 10 8
6 – 10 8 =8 =1
2 8
11 + 15 10
11 – 15 10 = 13 = 0.77
2 13
16 + 20 6
16 – 20 6 = 18 = 0.33
2 18
21 + 25 2
21 – 25 2 = 23 = 0.09
2 23
f
∑f = 30 ∑ X = 3.52
H .M =
∑f
f
∑X
30
=
3.52
H .M = 8.52

Numerical Questions for your Practice

Question # 1: Find Harmonic Mean from the following group data:

5, 10, 15, 20, 25.

Question # 2: Find Harmonic Mean from the following group data:

Groups Frequency
1 – 10 2
11 – 20 4
21 – 30 5
31 – 40 3
41 – 50 1

SANAN FAZAL Lecturer at

M.Phil STATISTICS Punjab Group of Colleges
+92-313-6212440 Jalal Pur Jattan Campus 2