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Date: 2005-05-18T13:40:05Z
From: TEMPL Matthias
Subject: standardization
My thoughts on this is:
Do not trust what SAS say??s and least of all what the Enterprise Miner said.
Robust Statisticians recommendends to standardize using e.g.
(X - median(X)) / ( MAD(X) / 0.675 )
Best,
Matthias
> SAS Enterprise Miner recommendeds to standardize using X / STDEV(X)
> versus [X - mean(X)] / STDEV(X)
>
> Any thoughts on this? Pros Cons
>
> Philip
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