Gini´s Mean Difference:

Gini´s mean difference is a descriptive statistic , a measure of variation. For a sample of N values the Gini´s mean difference is the average of all pairwise absolute differences:

 

GMD =  1 N(N-1) ? ij  |xi-xj|;   i,j = 1,...,N;   i ? j .

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