mean deviation; average deviation
A statistical measure of dispersion; the average of the absolute deviations from the mean. Used in mathematics and data analysis.
Please calculate the mean deviation of this dataset.
Standard deviation uses squared deviations and is more common in statistics; mean deviation uses absolute deviations.
Variance is the average of squared deviations, while mean deviation uses absolute values.
Compound of 平均 (mean, average) and 偏差 (deviation). A straightforward technical term.