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Mean Deviation in Statistics Explained

This document defines mean deviation and provides formulas to calculate it from a data set. Mean deviation is the average of the absolute deviations from the mean, median, or mode. It measures the average distance data points are from the central tendency. The document gives formulas to calculate mean deviation from individual data sets, discrete distributions, and continuous distributions. It also provides an example of calculating the mean deviation and coefficient of mean deviation from a data set of student weights.

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Mean Deviation in Statistics Explained

This document defines mean deviation and provides formulas to calculate it from a data set. Mean deviation is the average of the absolute deviations from the mean, median, or mode. It measures the average distance data points are from the central tendency. The document gives formulas to calculate mean deviation from individual data sets, discrete distributions, and continuous distributions. It also provides an example of calculating the mean deviation and coefficient of mean deviation from a data set of student weights.

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Mean Deviation

Dr. Preeti Jain


Mean Deviation (MD)
Definition
MD is arithmetic average of deviations of all the
values taken from a statistical average (Mean,
Median oar Mode) of the series.
In taking deviations of values the ± signs are
ignored.

That means, negative deviations are also


treated as positive deviations.
Mean deviation may be based on mean,
median or mode. That is deviations are
taken either from mean or median or
made.

Formulae
( For Direct Method)
Series MD from Mean MD from Median MD from Mode
Individual
MDx 
 dx
MDM 
 dM
MDZ 
 dz
N N N
Discrete
 f dx MDM 
 f dM
MDZ 
 f dz
MD x  N N
N
Continuous
 f dx MDM 
 f dM
 f dz
MD x  N MDZ 
N N
Coefficient of Mean Deviation

C of MD from Mean C of MD from C of MD from Mode


Median

MDx MDM MDZ


  
x M Z
Computation of Mean Deviation
from Mean

In Individual Series
Given below are the weights of 9 students of a class. Calculate
MD and its coefficient from Mean:
N: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
X: 50 52 55 57 60 61 64 65 67
N X dx

1 50 9
2 52 7
C of MD from Mean
3 55 4
MDx 
 dx
4 57 2 N MDx
5 60 1

44 x
6 61 2   4.89
9
7 64 5 4.89
8 65 6   .0829
9 67 8 59
N=9 ∑x = 531  d x  44

x
 x  531  59
N 9
Computation of Mean Deviation
from Mean

In Discrete Series
Find out the mean deviation from Mean, Median and Mode and their coefficient from the
following series:
Size: 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
F: 2 1 3 6 4 3 1
X F FX
4 2 8
6 1 6
8 3 24 C of MD from Mean
10 6 60
MDx 
 dx
12 4 48 N
14 3 42
44
16 1 16   4.89
9
∑f = 20 ∑fx =204 4.89
  .0829
59

= 204/20
= 10.2
Keep Practicing

Thank You

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