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Python : easy way to do geometric mean in python?

I wonder is there any easy way to do geometric mean using python but without using python package. If there is not, is there any simple package to do geometric mean?

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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The formula of the gemetric mean is:

geometrical mean

So you can easily write an algorithm like:

import numpy as np

def geo_mean(iterable):
    a = np.array(iterable)
    return a.prod()**(1.0/len(a))

You do not have to use numpy for that, but it tends to perform operations on arrays faster than Python. See this answer for why.

In case the chances of overflow are high, you can map the numbers to a log domain first, calculate the sum of these logs, then multiply by 1/n and finally calculate the exponent, like:

import numpy as np

def geo_mean_overflow(iterable):
    return np.exp(np.log(iterable).mean())
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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In case someone is looking here for a library implementation, there is gmean() in scipy, possibly faster and numerically more stable than a custom implementation:

>>> from scipy.stats import gmean
>>> gmean([1.0, 0.00001, 10000000000.])
46.415888336127786

Compatible with both Python 2 and 3.*

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Starting Python 3.8, the standard library comes with the geometric_mean function as part of the statistics module:

from statistics import geometric_mean

geometric_mean([1.0, 0.00001, 10000000000.]) // 46.415888336127786
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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