and is greater than or equal to the minimum of its arguments: for positive arguments, . Thus, the harmonic mean cannot be made arbitrarily large by changing some values to bigger ones while having at least one value unchanged.

The harmonic mean is also concave for positive arguments, an even stronger property than Schur-concavity.

Relationship with other means

For all positive data sets containing at least one pair of nonequal values,

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