Standardizing Sets

Standardizing Sets

Standardizing a set of observations means substracting the mean from each observation and dividing it by the standard deviation.

The mean is:

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The standard deviation is:

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The standarized values of each observation are then:

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As an exercise, substitute Ybar and sd into the above equation.


Primary Author: Nicholas M. Short, Sr. email: nmshort@nationi.net
Dr. Jon W. Robinson (robinson@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov)