Question

The following data shows the height in inches of 11 different plants in a garden 9,4,10,9,5,2,22,10,3,3,5 After removing the outlet, what does it mean absolute deviation of this data set represent

Answer 1

The absolute deviation of a data set represents the average distance between each data point and the mean of the data set. It is a measure of how spread out the data points are from the mean. In this case, after removing the outlier of 22, the absolute deviation would be calculated by finding the mean of the remaining data points (sum of the data points divided by the number of data points), and then finding the absolute difference between each data point and the mean, summing these absolute differences, and dividing by the number of data points. This would give us a measure of how spread out the remaining data points are from the mean height of the plants in the garden.