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Re:Median and Mad Revisited with an Online Estimator by lonelappde on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:59AM (#22822078)
What is MAD?
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Re:Median and Mad Revisited with an Online Estimator by AnthonyLloyd on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:04AM (#22822109)
Median Absolute Deviation

Discussed in the previous post: http://anthonylloyd.github.io/blog/2016/10/21/MAD-Outliers

It's roughly the range around the median where half the sample is within (since you can do 2 sided MAD also).

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