Standardizing a set of observations means substracting the mean from each observation
and dividing it by the standard deviation.
The mean is:
The standard deviation is:
The standarized values of each observation are then:
As an exercise, substitute Ybar and sd into the above equation.
Primary Author: Nicholas M. Short, Sr.
email: nmshort@epix.net
Dr. Jon W. Robinson (robinson@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov)