MAD

What is Mean Absolute Deviation?

• The mean of the data

• The absolute value of the mean

• The variation of data values around the mode

• The average distance between the data values and the mean

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

• Find the distance each value is from the mean
• Find the mean of the distances
• Find the mean of the data

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

• 3

• 5

• 1

• 2

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

• Find the distance each value is from the mean
• Find the mean of the distances
• Find the mean of the data

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Find the Mean Absolute Deviation:  5, 11, 2, 7, 16.  The Mean is 8.2 

• 3.2
• 2.8
• 1.2
• 4.2

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What is another word for average?

• Mean
• Median
• Mode
• Range

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In calculating MAD, after you find the absolute deviations you must _____________.

• Do nothing because you are done.
• Subtract them from the mean.
• Find the mean of the absolute deviations.

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True or false?:The absolute value of a number will always be positive.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

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In calculating MAD, after you find the average or mean you must _____________. 

• do nothing because you're done
• Find out the distance each number is from the mean.
• Find the distance each number is from zero.

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