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standardize: Standardizes a Numeric Matrix by Columns.

Description

Sometimes it is desirable to have all variables to have mean 0 and standard deviation 1. This function rescales the values in such a way.

If the argument is not a matrix, the function tries to convert the object into a matrix. For example, it works smoothly for xts objects.

Usage

standardize(data)

Value

matrix

Arguments

data

matrix, observations are put in rows, and variables are grouped by columns

See Also

normalize

Examples

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standardize(crudeoil)

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