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Note on the “Method of the Arithmetic Mean” as Applied to Rates of Increase

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

George H. Bryan
George H. Bryan*
Affiliation:
University College of North Wales, Bangor, Wales, 11, th October, 1904
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It is known to all students of physics that when a number of different observations have been made of the same constant quantity, the best result is, in general, obtained by taking the arithmetic mean of the observed values.

If the observed quantity instead of being constant is increasing at a uniform rate, and we require to determine this rate of increase, we should naturally expect that the proper course to follow would be to find the rates of increase of the quantity in successive equal intervals of time and take their arithmetic mean.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 3 , Issue 48 , December 1904 , pp. 97 - 99
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1904 

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