Why Standard Deviation is more popular than Mean Absolute Deviation?
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Why square the difference instead of taking the absolute value in standard deviation?
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Comparison of two means
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What is the reason that the value "47" is so popular in electrical engineering?
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Why is the squared difference so commonly used?
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Importance of normal distribution
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Standard error of the median
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What's the difference between variance and standard deviation?
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Significant figures vs. absolute error
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Why are true and false so large?
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What does standard deviation tell us in non-normal distribution
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Why would parametric statistics ever be preferred over nonparametric?
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Why are mean and median not equal for asymmetric distributions?
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The median minimizes the sum of absolute deviations (the $ {\ell}_{1} $ norm)
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Explaining Mean, Median, Mode in Layman's Terms
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Two different formulas for standard error of difference between two means
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Why does t statistic increase with the sample size?
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Mean absolute error OR root mean squared error?