The Weighted Mean


That is for some variable \(X\) which takes the (quantitative) values \(\{x_1,...,x_n\}\) which have corresponding weights \(\{w_1,...,w_n\}\) we calculate the weighted mean by the following formula:

\[\overline{X}=\frac{\Big(\sum_{i=1}^nw_i\cdot x_i\Big)}{{\sum w}}\]