R help - Nov 1998 - compute geometric mean

Hi:

I need to compute the geometric mean of a population. How i can do it??

thanks.

Jorge M. A. Magalhae

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>>>>> "Jorge" == Jorge M. A. Magalhae <mop41059 at
mail.telepac.pt> writes:
Jorge> Hi: I need to compute the geometric mean of a population. How i
Jorge> can do it??

One way is:

   exp(mean(log(x)))

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