MEAN DEVIATION

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution

Synonyms:

mean deviation; mean deviation from the mean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mean deviation" is a kind of...):

deviation (the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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