Mean Absolute Deviation

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What does M.A.D stand for?

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Mean Absolute Deviation

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Find the Mean Absolute Deviation: 10, 9, 3, 8, 10. The Mean is 8

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2

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What is another word for average?

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Mean

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

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Find the mean of the distances

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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 first step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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Find the mean of the data

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How do you calculate the distance from the mean?

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

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What is the formula for Mean Absolute Deviation?

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MAD = (Σ|x - mean|) / n, where x is each data point and n is the number of data points.

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If the data set is 4, 6, 8, what is the mean?

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6

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What does it mean if the Mean Absolute Deviation is 0?

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All data points are the same as the mean.