August 2000
Beginner to intermediate
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AVEDEV
Use AVEDEV to take a series of numeric values and find the average of the absolute deviations of the values from the mean. For example, if you have the values -1.1, 3, 5, and 7, the average deviation is 2.4.
=AVEDEV(Number1,Number2, ...)
There must be at least one Number argument
specified.
Figure 15-1 illustrates how AVEDEV is used to find the average deviation within a list of numeric values. This function allows you to compare the results of this function to results returned by the AVERAGE and AVERAGEA functions, which return the average of the actual values in the list.

Figure 15-1. Don’t get confused when selecting one of the averaging functions -- they all produce different results
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