What is mean absolute deviation (MAD) and how do I find it?

Steps to find MAD:

Step 1. Calculate mean() of the data using formula: ,  where x denotes data points and n is the number of data points.

Step 2. Calculate distance of each data point from mean :

Distance =

Step 3. Divide  distance of each data point from mean by n:

MAD = , which is the final computation to find MAD.