MEAN DEVIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mean deviation mean? 

• MEAN DEVIATION (noun)
  The noun MEAN DEVIATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MEAN DEVIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEAN DEVIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

mean deviation; mean deviation from the mean

Hypernyms ("mean deviation" is a kind of...):

deviation (the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)