Calculate Mean Absolute Deviation (M.A.D)
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- Mathguru, Michael Borcherds
A website captures information about each customer's order. The total dollar amounts of the last 8 orders are listed in the table below. What is the mean absolute deviation of the data?
- To find the mean absolute deviation of the data, start by finding the mean of the data set.
- Find the sum of the data values, and divide the sum by the number of data values.
- Find the absolute value of the difference between each data value and the mean: |data value – mean|.
- Find the sum of the absolute values of the differences.
- Divide the sum of the absolute values of the differences by the number of data values.