Mean Absolute Deviation
Average Absolute Deviation is summation of the absolute value of each deviation. It is useful to measure the spread of data while considering the effect of total number of data
Other name: average absolute error
Formula:
Example:
You can try the interactive program of Mean Absolute Difference (MAD) below with your own input data.
Type your input data in the box below, separated by comma. Only numbers input are accepted. Then click Get Mean Absolute Difference
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Average Absolute deviation
Variance
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See also:
Variance
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Mean and Average Tutorial
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Learning from Data
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