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If I have understood the question correctly, despite your challenging spelling, the standard deviation is the square root of the average of the squared deviations while the mean absolute deviation is the average of the deviation.

One consequence of this difference is that a large deviation affects the standard deviation more than it affects the mean absolute deviation.

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If quartile deviation is 24. find mean deviation and standard deviation?

Information is not sufficient to find mean deviation and standard deviation.


Can the standard deviation or variance be negative?

No, a standard deviation or variance does not have a negative sign. The reason for this is that the deviations from the mean are squared in the formula. Deviations are squared to get rid of signs. In Absolute mean deviation, sum of the deviations is taken ignoring the signs, but there is no justification for doing so. (deviations are not squared here)


What is the relationship between standard deviation and variance?

Standard deviation is the square root of the variance.


Is standard deviation an absolute value?

No. Standard deviation is not an absolute value. The standard deviation is often written as a single positive value (magnitude), but it is really a binomial, and it equals both the positive and negative of the given magnitude. For example, if you are told that for a population the SD is 5.0, it really means +5.0 and -5.0 from the population mean. It defines a region within the distribution, starting at the lower magnitude (-5.0) increasing to zero (the mean), and another region starting at zero (the mean) and increasing up to the upper magnitude (+5.0). Both regions together define the (continuous) region of standard deviation from the mean value.


Is standard deviation same as standard error?

From what ive gathered standard error is how relative to the population some data is, such as how relative an answer is to men or to women. The lower the standard error the more meaningful to the population the data is. Standard deviation is how different sets of data vary between each other, sort of like the mean. * * * * * Not true! Standard deviation is a property of the whole population or distribution. Standard error applies to a sample taken from the population and is an estimate for the standard deviation.

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Is population standard deviation the same thing as absolute standard deviation?

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Is the standard deviation the same as the mean of absolute distances from the mean?

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Difference between standard deviation and mean devition?

The mean deviation (also called the mean absolute deviation) is the mean of the absolute deviations of a set of data about the data's mean. The standard deviation sigma of a probability distribution is defined as the square root of the variance sigma^2,


What happens to the standard score as the standard deviation increases?

The absolute value of the standard score becomes smaller.


Characteristics of mean median mode range variance standard deviation mean absolute deviation?

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Is relative standard deviation an absolute value?

No, as its name suggests, it is a relative measure.


How standard deviation and Mean deviation differ from each other?

There is 1) standard deviation, 2) mean deviation and 3) mean absolute deviation. The standard deviation is calculated most of the time. If our objective is to estimate the variance of the overall population from a representative random sample, then it has been shown theoretically that the standard deviation is the best estimate (most efficient). The mean deviation is calculated by first calculating the mean of the data and then calculating the deviation (value - mean) for each value. If we then sum these deviations, we calculate the mean deviation which will always be zero. So this statistic has little value. The individual deviations may however be of interest. See related link. To obtain the means absolute deviation (MAD), we sum the absolute value of the individual deviations. We will obtain a value that is similar to the standard deviation, a measure of dispersal of the data values. The MAD may be transformed to a standard deviation, if the distribution is known. The MAD has been shown to be less efficient in estimating the standard deviation, but a more robust estimator (not as influenced by erroneous data) as the standard deviation. See related link. Most of the time we use the standard deviation to provide the best estimate of the variance of the population.


What is the mean absolute deviation of this set of numbers 3 9 27 81?

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What shows you how accurate to the true value an experimental value is?

The error, which can be measured in a number of different ways. Error, percentage error, mean absolute deviation, standardised error, standard deviation, variance are some measures that can be used.


How do you calculate the absolute probable error of the mean?

(0.6745 * Standard deviation)/ (n^1/2) :)


Why do we use mean absolute deviation?

It is one of several measures of the spread of data. It is easier to calculate than the standard deviation, which has important statistical properties.