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The STANDARD Procedure |
where
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is a new standardized value |
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is the value of STD= |
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is the value of MEAN= |
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is an observation's value |
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is a variable's mean |
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is a variable's standard deviation. |
PROC STANDARD calculates the mean (
) and standard deviation (
) from the input data set. The resulting standardized
variable has a mean of M and a standard deviation of S.
If the data are normally distributed, standardizing is also studentizing since the resulting data have a Student's t distribution.
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