For example, suppose that the manufacturing process described in the previous example produces engines whose weights are normally distributed with a mean of 1250 and a standard deviation of 12. The ...

Frequency Mean Absolute Deviation Maximum Distance from Seed to Observation Radius Exceeded Nearest Cluster Distance Between Cluster Medians 1 102 1.1278 24.1622 2 4.2585 2 108 1.0494 14.8292 1 4.2585 ...

Jianqing Fan, Peter Hall, On Curve Estimation by Minimizing Mean Absolute Deviation and Its Implications, The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 867-885 ...

Konno and Yamazaki (1992) propose the mean absolute deviation (MAD) model as an alternative to the mean variance (MV) model. They claim it retains all the positive features of the MV model, saves the ...