Mean Absolute Deviation
Riverbend Supply's forecasting team is unhappy with the standard deviation as a headline for how scattered a set of figures is. Squaring makes one freak value dominate, and the team would rather report a figure a non-statistician can read: the typical distance from the centre, in the original units. The measure they publish is the mean absolute deviation — the average of how far each figure lies from the set's centre, with direction ignored. Their handbook fixes both halves of that: the centre is the arithmetic mean, and the distances are combined by averaging them.
Task: Print the mean absolute deviation of the figures.
Input
The first line holds a single integer n, the number of figures. Each of the next n lines holds one figure, which may carry decimals.
Output
One line holding the mean absolute deviation with exactly two digits after the decimal point. A set in which every figure is identical prints as 0.00.
Example:
Input:
4
2
4
4
6
Output:
1.00
Sign in to solve this problem
Reading problems is free for everyone — solving them (Run, Submit, and tracking what you've solved) needs an account.
Sign in