Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)

Solomon Xie
Statistical Guess
Published in
1 min readJan 15, 2019

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The Mean absolute deviation is the absolute average of all deviations.

The deviation is the distance from the value to the mean value.
It's used to describe how the values looks like or how they're laid on the axis, are they close to each other or far away.

Khan lectures.

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Solomon Xie
Statistical Guess

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