Mean Absolute Deviation

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What is Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)?

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The average distance between the data values and the mean.

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True or false?: You subtract the mean from each data value to find the absolute deviation.

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True

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What is the first step in calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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Find the mean of the data.

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What is the second step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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Find the distance each value is from the mean.

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What is the third step in calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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Find the mean of the distances.

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If the data set is 10, 9, 3, 8, 10, what is the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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2

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Which mean absolute deviation would be more consistent? 4.2 or 8.5?

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4.2

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What does a lower Mean Absolute Deviation indicate about a data set?

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The data values are closer to the mean.

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What does a higher Mean Absolute Deviation indicate about a data set?

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The data values are more spread out from the mean.

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How do you calculate the absolute deviation for a single data point?

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Subtract the mean from the data point and take the absolute value.

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