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Class notes Chapter 5 Statistics (STATS-2126) Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, ISBN: 9780357035580
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chapter 5 - z-scores summary
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1 of 10 Monday, October 26, 2020Chapter 5 - Z-Scores: Location of Scores and
Standardized Distribution
5-1 Introduction
Attention now on individual scores within a distribution
Purpose: Z-Scores/standardized scores identify and describe the exact location of each score
within the distribution
To Find Location
Mean Dependent
on each Advantage of this process is that it is possible to compare distribution
Standard other men though they may have been quite different before standardization
Deviation
Transforming X values into Z-Scores
2 useful purposes:
1. Each z-score tells the exact location of the original X value within the distribution
2. The z-scores from a standardized distribution that can be directly compared to other
distributions that also have been transformed into z-scores
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