| The index of divergence is expressed in the sum of the absolute value of the differences for all industries. |
| Ignoring minus signs, thereby taking the absolute value, gives a two-part curve. |
| Figure 4 shows five-year moving averages of the mean absolute value of the ratio of the current account balance to GDP for twelve countries. |
| The higher the absolute value, more important is the response variable, which enables its sorting in descending order of magnitude. |
| We then calculated the average absolute value of these discrepancies across all the group members who appraised that participant. |
| The absolute value of the correlation coefficient represents the strength of the association between the two variables. |
