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median absolute deviation: a standalone construct

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a robust measure of spread, the median of distances from the median, recommended over standard deviations for flagging outliers.

In statistics, median absolute deviation refers to a robust measure of spread, the median of distances from the median, recommended over standard deviations for flagging outliers. This meaning comes from Leys (2013) in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.[1]

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References

Leys, C., Ley, C., Klein, O., Bernard, P., & Licata, L. (2013). Detecting outliers: Do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(4), 764-766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2013.03.013

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