Mean Absolute Deviation

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
MAD
Pronunciation
/min ˈæbsəˌlut ˌdiviˈeɪʃən/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Research

Examples in Context

  1. As a measure of risk, mean absolute deviation is better than variance in a sense.
  2. Consequently, it is also necessary to estimate the forecast error, which may be represented by the standard deviation or the Mean Absolute Deviation(MAD) ( MAD ).
  3. The mean absolute deviation of the calculation results by this method from the experiment data was 14.9 %.
  4. Entropy, standard deviation, mean absolute deviation of the PD gray images are extracted and the acquired characteristics are analyzed for five types of discharge pattern recognition.
  5. The model uses mean absolute deviation of return as measure of the risk and gains a optimal portfolio by solving the linear programming.

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