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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In a statistical distribution or a set of data, the average of the absolute values of the differences between individual numbers and their mean.
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- noun the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution
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