pandas.DataFrame.mad

DataFrame.mad(axis=None, skipna=None, level=None)

Return the mean absolute deviation of the values for the requested axis

Parameters:

axis : {index (0), columns (1)} skipna : boolean, default True Exclude NA/null values. If an entire row/column is NA, the result will be NA level : int or level name, default None If the axis is a MultiIndex (hierarchical), count along a particular level, collapsing into a Series numeric_only : boolean, default None Include only float, int, boolean data. If None, will attempt to use everything, then use only numeric data

Returns:

mad : Series or DataFrame (if level specified)