By the Strong Law of Large Numbers applied to log(X) the geometric mean of X_1,...,X_n > 0 and IID like X converges toexp(E[log(X)]] which, by Jensen's inequality, is always <= E[X] and is strictly less than E[X] except in trivial extreme cases.
In short: by using the geometric mean all asymptotic results no longer apply. Michael Meyer [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.