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Quadratic Mean

The quadratic mean is referred to as root mean square (RMS) in electrical engineering and is used to calculate the effective value of and alternating current or voltage:

Due to the averaging of the squares of the observations xi the quadratic mean may not become negative and must not be seen as a "mean" at all - the quadratic mean is in fact a measure of the energy content of a signal.
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