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Basic Statistics of Movable Points
See how various location measures change as you move points around. Note that the median jumps as points change their relative coordinates.
The harmonic mean is never to the right of the geometric mean, which is never to the right of the arithmetic mean.
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Basic Statistics of Movable Points
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