standardization

SAS Enterprise Miner recommendeds to standardize using X / STDEV(X)
versus [X ? mean(X)] / STDEV(X)

This makes absolutely no sense out of context.

To paraphrase Tanenbaum: "The nice thing about standardization is that 
there's so many ways to do it".

Baz

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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:

Andrew Tanenbaum, in his Computer Networks book, once said,
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of
them to choose from",

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