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STANDARD Function

standardizes numeric data
STANDARD( matrix)

where matrix is any n ×m matrix, n is the number of data points and m is the number of variables.

The STANDARD function returns a standardized n ×m matrix. It standardizes each column of the input matrix, so that the mean of each column is zero and the standard deviation for each column is one.

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