LearningRlab (version 2.4)

averageDeviation_: Average Absolute Deviation Function

Description

This function calculates the average absolute deviation of a numbers vector.

Usage

averageDeviation_(x)

Value

Numeric, the average absolute deviation of the numbers vector.

Arguments

x

Should be a numbers vector

Author

Dennis Monheimius,
Eduardo Benito,
Juan Jose Cuadrado,
Universidad de Alcala de Henares

Details

To calculate the average deviation, the user should give a numbers vector. The result is the sum of the differences in absolute value between each vector element and the mean, divided by the number of elemets. The average absolute deviation formule is the following:

Examples

#data creation
data <- c(1:20)
result = averageDeviation_(data)