mean deviation

1. 1.

   the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution

   Synonymsmean deviation from the mean

   Broaderdeviation

   statistics

Questions about mean deviation

What does mean deviation mean?

mean deviation means "the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution".

What is another word for mean deviation?

Close synonyms include mean deviation from the mean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mean deviation a common word?

mean deviation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.