estimates the Mean deviation
y = nan_meandev(x,DIM)
mean deviation of x in dimension DIM
dimension
STATS of columns
STATS of rows
first DIMENSION, with more than 1 element
(note that according to [1,2] this is the mean deviation; not the mean absolute deviation)
features:
- can deal with NaN's (missing values) - dimension argument - compatible to Matlab and Octave
[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MeanDeviation.html
[2] L. Sachs, "Applied Statistics: A Handbook of Techniques", Springer-Verlag, 1984, page 253.
[3] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MeanAbsoluteDeviation.html
[4] Kenney, J. F. and Keeping, E. S. "Mean Absolute Deviation." ยง6.4 in Mathematics of Statistics, Pt. 1, 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, pp. 76-77 1962.