Standardizing in Mathematical Statistics
Further information: Normalization (statistics)In mathematical statistics, a random variable X is standardized by subtracting its expected value and dividing the difference by its standard deviation
If the random variable under consideration is the sample mean of a random sample of X:
then the standardized version is
See normalization (statistics) for other forms of normalization.
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