The mean and median absolute deviations☆
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Keywords
Mean absolute deviation
Median absolute deviation
Standard deviation
Sampling distributions
Contamination
Robustness
Estimation
Skewness
Gini index
Peters formula
Asymptotics
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Research partially supported by NSERC Grant 41-505 (Canada). The authors wish to warmly thank several colleagues that have helped to improve the content and the presentation of this paper. Thanks are also due to Professor N. Turkkan for setting up several complex computer programs.
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