HARMEAN function

Returns the harmonic mean of a data set. The harmonic mean is the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of reciprocals.

Syntax

HARMEAN(number1,number2,...)

Number1,number2, ...     are 1 to 30 arguments for which you want to calculate the mean.

Remarks

• The arguments must be either numbers or column references that contain numbers.

• If a column reference argument contains text, logical values, or is empty, those values are ignored; however, arguments with the value zero are included.

• If any data point ≤ 0, HARMEAN returns the #NUM! error value.

• The harmonic mean is always less than the geometric mean, which is always less than the arithmetic mean.

• The equation for the harmonic mean is:

  

Example

Col1	Col2	Col3	Col4	Col5	Col6	Col7	Formula	Description (Result)
4	5	8	7	11	4	3	=HARMEAN([Col1],[Col2],[Col3],[Col4],[Col5],[Col6],[Col7])	Harmonic mean of the data (5.028376)