Standard Units

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Section 5.5 Standard Units

Any distribution variable can be converted to “standard units” using the linear translation $\displaystyle z = \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\text{.}$ In doing so, then values of z will always represent the number of standard deviations x is from the mean and will provide “dimensionless” comparisons.