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One reason the mean is such a widely used average is that it lends itself to calculations of the following kind.
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Peters, W.S. (1987). Special Averages. In: Counting for Something. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4638-1_3
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