True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Vera. Del and Noreen strike a deal that Noreen will work for Lynda in order to repay him for the lost photographs and rug. It takes 30 minutes to convince Lynda to hire her even though she will be working for no pay. Lynda also asks for $80 a month to pay for the food she eats. Later on, Noreen gets a deep pain inside of her and has spotting on her underwear. Lynda gets her an emergency appointment in Willow Point. Noreen gets an ultrasound and his amazed at the tiny white flashing blip on the screen. She thinks
Mean log deviation the mean of ln("x"). The last definition shows that MLD is nonnegative, since formula_7 by Jensen's inequality. MLD has been called "the standard deviation of ln("x")", (SDL) but this is not correct. The SDL is and this is not equal to the MLD. For example, for the standard lognormal distribution, MLD = 1/2 but SDL = 1. The MLD is a special case of the generalized entropy index. Specifically, the MLD is the generalized entropy index with α=0. Mean log deviation In statistics and econometrics, the mean log deviation (MLD) is a measure of income inequality. The MLD is zero