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Definition of Mean deviation

1. Noun. The arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mean Deviation

Literary usage of Mean deviation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics by George Udny Yule (1919)
"The mean deviation.—The mean deviation of a series of values of a variable is the arithmetic mean of their deviations i from some average, taken without ..."

2. Introduction to Mathematical Statistics by Carl Joseph West (1918)
"According to the measure supplied by the mean deviation which is the more ... The mean deviation as a measure of dispersion has all the properties of a mean ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1883)
"The greatest mean deviation of the measured lines in either spectrum from lines which are rigidly harmonic, is less than J of one per cent., the mean ..."

4. Fundamentals of Educational Measurement with the Elements of Statistical Method by Chester Arthur Gregory (1922)
"Computation of the mean deviation: Data Grouped in a Frequency Distribution. ... The computation of the mean deviation by the method given in Table XXX ..."

5. A First Course in Statistics by D. Caradog Jones (1921)
"The mean deviation is readily found from Table (14) by adding up the numbers in col. ... This, however, is the mean deviation measured from 33 as origin, ..."

6. Statistical Methods Applied to Education: A Textbook for Students of by Harold Ordway Rugg (1917)
"S. The mean deviation What the mean deviation is. ... The mean deviation of a series of measures is the arithmetic mean of their deviations from a ..."

7. The Theory of Measurements by Lucius Tuttle (1916)
"It is also sometimes called the mean deviation and the mean-square deviation, but as the term mean deviation is also used for what we have denned as the ..."

8. The Theory of Measurements by Lucius Tuttle (1916)
"It is also sometimes called the mean deviation and the mean-square deviation, but as the term mean deviation is also used for what we have denned as the ..."

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