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Absolute Deviation and Absolute Mean Deviation using NumPy
In Statistical analysis study of data variability in a sample indicates how dispersed are the values in a given data sample. The two important ways we calculate the variability are Absolute Deviation and Mean Absolute Deviation.
Absolute Deviation
In this method we first find the mean value of the given sample and then calculate the difference between each value and the mean value of the sample called as the absolute deviation value of each data sample. So for the values higher than mean the value the deviation value will be positive and for those lower than the mean value the deviation value will be negative. Next we take the absolute values using the absolute function to make each deviation as positive. Summing up all these absolute deviation gives a positive result. Without absolute value the sum of these deviations would be zero.
In the below example we take a data sample and calculate the absolute deviation for each data element.
Example
from numpy import mean, absolute data = [12, 42, 53, 13, 112] # Find mean value of the sample M = mean(data) print "Sample Mean Value = ",mean(data) print "\n" # Calculate absolute deviation print "Data-Mean","","deviation" for i in range(len(data)): dev = absolute(data[i] - M) print data[i],"-",M,round((dev),2)
Output
Running the above code gives us the following result −
Sample Mean Value = 46.4 Data-Mean deviation 12 - 46.4 34.4 42 - 46.4 4.4 53 - 46.4 6.6 13 - 46.4 33.4 112 - 46.4 65.6
Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD)
Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) is the mean value of all the absolute deviations we calculate for each data point. Taking the same sample as in previous example, we add code to sum up the value of the absolute deviations and divide it by the sample size.
Example
from numpy import mean, absolute data = [12, 42, 53, 13, 112] # Find mean value of the sample M = mean(data) print "Sample Mean Value = ",mean(data) sum = 0 # Calculate mean absolute deviation for i in range(len(data)): dev = absolute(data[i] - M) sum = sum + round(dev,2) print "Mean Absolute Deviation: ", sum/len(data)
Output
Running the above code gives us the following result −
Sample Mean Value = 46.4 Mean Absolute Deviation: 28.88
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