REVISITING A 90-YEAR-OLD DEBATE: THE ADVANTAGES OF THE MEAN DEVIATION

By Stephen Gorard. 2005

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Subfields: Education, Information Systems and Management, Statistics and Probability

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• MDEWMA chart: an efficient and robust alternative to monitor process dispersion (2013, background): “The mean absolute deviation from the median is defined as Many researchers have advocated the MD as a measure of dispersion rather than the sample range or sample standard deviation (see 23–25 and the references therein).”
• Fluctuating Asymmetry: Methods, Theory, and Applications (2010, background): “It is less sensitive to outliers than the variance [57], and |di| lends itself to analysis of variance [58, 59, 49].”