Estoy buscando una referencia donde se pruebe que la media armónica
minimiza (en ) la suma de los errores relativos al cuadrado
references
mean
error
weighted-regression
harmonic-mean
Martin Van der Linden
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I have renamed "xi " as "yi " (the "response") and the parameter to be estimated is β instead of z . The weights are ωi=1/xi . It is necessary that they all exceed 0 . The solution is
QED.
Comments
The same analysis applies to any positive sets of weights, providing a generalization of the harmonic mean and a useful way to characterize it.
When, as in a controlled experiment, thexi are viewed as fixed (and not random), the machinery of weighted least squares provides confidence intervals and prediction intervals, etc. In other words, casting the problem into this setting automatically gives you a way to assess the precision of the harmonic mean.
Viewing the harmonic mean as the solution to a weighted problem provides insight into its nature and, especially, to its sensitivity to the data. It is now clear that the most important contributors are those with the smallest values ofxi --and their importance has been quantified by the weights matrix W .
Reference
Douglas C. Montgomery, Elizabeth A. Peck, and G. Geoffrey Vining, Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis. Fifth Edition. J. Wiley, 2012. Section 5.5.2.
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