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median_deviation

Maxima Function

Calling Sequence

median_deviation (list)
median_deviation(matrix)

Description

The median deviation, defined as

n
====
1   \
-    >    |x - med|
n   /       i
====
i = 1
where

med is the median of list.

Example:

(%i1) load (descriptive)$
(%i2) load (numericalio)$
(%i3) s1 : read_list (file_search ("pidigits.data"))$
(%i4) median_deviation (s1);
                                5
(%o4)                           -
                                2
(%i5) s2 : read_matrix (file_search ("wind.data"))$
(%i6) median_deviation (s2);
(%o6)           [2.75, 2.755, 3.08, 4.315, 3.31]

See also function .

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