Question

What is the mean absolute deviation (MAD) of the data set?

{21.5, 26.6, 25.8, 23.1, 20.1, 32.9}

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Answer 1

Answer:

Mean absolute deviation (MAD) of a data set is the average distance between each data value and the mean. Mean absolute deviation is a way to describe variation in a data set. Mean absolute deviation helps us get a sense of how "spread out" the values in a data set are.