Definitions for "Standardize"
cause to conform to standard or norm; "The weights and measures were standardized"
A collection of numeric data is standardized by subtracting a measure of central location (such as the mean or median) and by dividing by some measure of spread (such as the standard deviation, interquartile range or range). This yields data with a similarly shaped histogram with values centered around 0. It is sometimes useful to do this with inputs into neural nets and also inputs into other regression models. (Also see normalize.)
Keywords:  ste, purge, ave, avenue, merge
Name and address files are run through postal software that "standardizes" the addresses so that they meet postal specifications for such things as street abbreviations (Avenue becomes AVE), directionals (West becomes W), and suite or apartment numbers (Suite #201 becomes STE 201). Standardizing the addresses also helps in merge-purge accuracy. Back
Keywords:  compare, evaluate
evaluate by comparing with a standard
To compare with a standard.
Keywords:  score, convert
to convert to a z-score.
To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.