standardization

2 messages · TEMPL Matthias, Bert Gunter

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Wed, May 18, 2005 6:40 AM #

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

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Wed, May 18, 2005 7:38 AM #

Make that (X - median(X))/mad(X)

The constant is already in mad()


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