Median Absolute Deviation

Problem

Return the median absolute deviation: the median of |x - median(data)|, unscaled. Return 0.0 for empty input.

Hint

Compute the median first, then take the median of the absolute deviations.

case 1

in: [[1,2,3,4,5]]

expected: 1

case 2

in: [[1,1,2,2,4,6,9]]

expected: 1

case 3

in: [[1,2,3,4]]

expected: 1

case 4

in: [[5]]

expected: 0

case 5

in: [[]]

expected: 0

Starter codePython

def median_absolute_deviation(data):
    # Your code here
    pass

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