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Noun: mean deviation  meen ,dee-vee'ey-shun
  1. (statistics) the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of deviations from the mean of a distribution
    - mean deviation from the mean

Derived forms: mean deviations

Type of: deviation

Encyclopedia: Mean deviation

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