Documentation/Calc Functions/AVEDEV

Function name:
AVEDEV

Category:
Statistical Analysis

Summary:
Returns the average of the absolute deviations of data points from their mean. Displays the diffusion in a data set.

Syntax:
AVEDEV(Number 1 [; Number 2 [; … [; Number 255]]])

Returns:
Returns a real number which is the average of the absolute deviations of Number 1, Number 2, ..., Number 255 from their mean.

Arguments:
Number 1, Number 2, ..., Number 255 are real numbers, references to cells or to cell ranges of numbers.


 * If any of the arguments contain text value either being passed directly or with double quotes then the function returns a name(#NAME?) error or a simple error value(Err:504), respectively.
 * If a reference to a cell containing text is passed as an argument then the function calculates average absolute deviation ignoring that value.

Additional details:
The formula for average absolute deviation is:

where xi represents the Number i and x bar is their mean.

Related LibreOffice functions:
SUM

AVERAGE

ODF standard:
Section 6.18.2, part 2

Equivalent Excel functions:
AVEDEV