Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

average deviation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables: av-er-age de-vi-a-tion
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

the average of the absolute deviations from a central point and a summary statistic of statistical dispersion or variability.

Example Sentences

"A more meaningful way to quantify the spread is to compute the average deviation of the data points from the data set's mean (= average) value."

Synonyms

average absolute deviation

Questions

What does average deviation mean?: the average of the absolute deviations from a central point and a summary statistic of statistical dispersion or variability.

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