Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)

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What are the three measures of center?

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Mean, Median & Mode

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What is the first step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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Find the mean of the data

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What is the second step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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Find the distance (absolute value) each data value is from the mean

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What is the third step when calculating the Mean Absolute Deviation?

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Find the mean of the distances

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Which dot plot shows more consistency? a or b?

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a (Set I)

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Which dot plot shows more variability? a or b?

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b (Set II)

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Find the Mean Absolute Deviation: 10, 9, 3, 8, 10.

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2

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Which mean absolute deviation would have a greater variability or spread? Options: 4.2, 8.5, 5.9, 3.5

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8.5

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Find the MAD: 58, 38, 54, 48, 26, 40

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9.33

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Which mean absolute deviation would be more consistent? Options: -3.8, 4.9, -4.9, 3.8

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3.8