Message-ID: <428B404F.5040302@lancaster.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-05-18T13:17:03Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: standardization
In-Reply-To: <x2wtpwbsyn.fsf@turmalin.kubism.ku.dk>
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>>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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