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Standardizing in Mathematical Statistics

Further information: Normalization (statistics)

In mathematical statistics, a random variable X is standardized by subtracting its expected value and dividing the difference by its standard deviation

If the random variable under consideration is the sample mean of a random sample of X:

then the standardized version is

See normalization (statistics) for other forms of normalization.

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