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Re:Median and Mad Revisited with an Online Estimator by asplake on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:26AM (#22821862)
MAD being mean absolute deviation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_absolute_deviation
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Re:Median and Mad Revisited with an Online Estimator by lonelappde on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:59AM (#22822074)
The link says Median Absolute Deviation.

Here's a SE discussion with people using the term inconsistently without even noticing. https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/42760/mad-vs...

It's absurd to use ambiguous acronyms like this.

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