Talk:Standard score

message: I deleted this sentence, the subject of which is 'standard scores': "They are most frequently used to compare an observation to a theoretical deviate, such as a standard normal deviate." 
1. Wasn't appropriate for intro.  Roll into body?
2. Deviate (statistics) redirects to Random Variate, so, consider using that term?
3. 'Standard normal deviate' page was written ten years ago by someone who admits they don't know much about statistics and asked for help (which, sadly, never came).  Shortly thereafter, it was nominated for deletion.  But yet, it stays. It is not a very good page. OmneBonum (talk) 23:47, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Standard Normal Deviate

message: * Just one quick addition/question.  Standard score in statistics is not related only to (z) scores.  "It should include (z), (t), deviation (IQS), stanine, sten scores, (others...)"(Drummond, 2004). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.182.95.67 (talk • contribs) 
* Where can we add the value range standardization following
 y = \frac{x - minimum}{maximum-minimum} 
- herr_blaschke 14:22, 3 Jan 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Other scores

message: I added stuff about standardization and standardized because a while back I created an article called "Standardized" that I'm now trying to get rid of (merging, then REDIRECTing -- note that the only page history Standardized had was the initial page creation by me on March 9, 2004 — I figured that wasn't important to keep).
I removed the following sentence because it was rendered mostly redundant by my discussion of comparing 2 students' exam scores.
:A standard score is a way of placing a raw score in context. It is often used to compare test results within and between groups, and especially with reference to a norm group. - dcljr 21:11, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Modified content

message: How is normalising data different from standardising data? The Normalization (statistical) pages doesn't give much (enough) information about this.
129.97.80.128 21:51, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Question about normalising

message: Hi. Could somebody explain to me why sometimes symbols (like the Greek letters named mu and sigma) appear in pages while other times there are what seem like LaTeX codes (like \mu and \sigma)? I wonder why the codes appear, instead of their compiled output or the appropriate symbols. Thank you. Xinelo 11:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Symbols question

message: I added a link to a z-score table. z-score tables, though archaic, are definitely a part of the curriculum and should be mentioned somewhere. 68.19.125.93
:That link is a commercial link and does not belong in Wikipedia. Please find a non-commercial link with the same or similar content. -- Chris53516 20:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, it's fair to use, it's just that the website is a commercial entity, and linking to it may be seen as advertisement. See Wikipedia:External links for more info. -- Chris53516 21:37, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External Link Added

message: "A key point is that calculating z requires the population mean and the population standard deviation, not the sample mean or sample deviation. It requires knowing the population parameters, not the statistics of a sample drawn from the population of interest."
My professor (Ph.D Electrical Eng.) says this is wrong, ether type can be use... Anyone care to offer up a third opinion or clarification?
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The official definition of z involves the difference between a particular score and the population mean.  So in order to calculate z you must know the population mean.  Knowing the population mean is very easy with standardized testing because the population is all of the tests administered.  For most natural phenomena, knowing the population parameters such as the population mean is practically impossible which is why sampling is done to try to estimate the population parameters by calculating sample statistics.  If the sampling is done properly and the population has one of statistically correct types of distributions then the sample statistics can be used to approximate the population parameters.  z score calculation requires that the population distribution be a normal curve.
So basically your professor is sort of right and sort of wrong.  He is right if the population of interest is normally distributed and the sample statistics are good approximations of the population parameters.  In many cases people will make that the distribution is normal and that the sample statistics do approximate the population parameters well enough.  The nice thing about have the entire population such as the results of a standardized test is that the researcher can calculate the population parameters and can also check that the distribution is actually normal.
see http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/68384.html
 Richardelainechambers 02:47, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Population versus Sample

message: ... and I say that as a Ph.D. who received good grades in her two graduate statistics courses. Is there anyone here who can decipher and "normalize" (sorry! :) the dense math-speak in this article to be a little more accessible? There's only so far it can be simplified, of course, being a mathematical concept, but surely it doesn't have to be this hard. As a guide, I clicked on this wikilink from an article that mentioned that the movie criticism site Metacritic is different from Rotten Tomatoes in that it uses normalized scores, so that may give you a clue as to how non-mathematical a person's motives might be in exploring this article. Lawikitejana (talk) 05:17, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Totally incomprehensible jargon to this layperson 

message: I think this article should mention that z-scores are applicable to ANY distribution where the population mean and standard deviations are known.  All a z-score is, by definition, is the number of standard deviations away from the mean.  It does not only apply to the normal distribution!  This article intertwines z-scores and normal distributions which only leads to more confusion about z-scores. Z-scores make sense in uniform distributions, triangular distributions, and anything else you can think of.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChevyC (talk • contribs) 16:35, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  z-scores are not just for normal distributions 

message: I came to this article to check to see whether "Z-score" should have a capital "Z", or a lower case "z". Both are used in the article, away from full-stops/periods. Is there a correct notation? Does the capitalisation refer to population, rather than sample properties?
Cheers! Buzwad (talk) 10:33, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation 

message: Hi, can someone please change the first row of the little table with Z scores to be 0.68ish and 1?  I stopped in because I'm reverse engineering Excel's NORMINV() function (this version of Excel doesn't have function help) and I'm too busy to figure out how to update a wiki page (I never have before).  The other three Z scores look right (the 95%, 99%, etc), but it looks like someone typed 0.68 and 0.67 or something accidentally, rather than 1 (68%ish is 1 std dev from the mean).
 Qwfp (talk) 19:22, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Table change

message: Hi there, I read this article with interest. However, what seems to be missing to my (non-mathematical) mind is a section on the actual use and usefulness of the standard score. My very limited understanding is that this score is useful because it tells you how meaningful your results are: the more they deviate from (expected) normal distribution, the more likely it is that your data has something special to tell you. Now I am sure this is somewhat reductive or just part of the story, but more on this would be important, I think. -- Cheers, --PhilipWinter (talk) 11:16, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usefulness of the standard score? 

message: As a perceptive user noticed , I had mixed up variance and standard deviation in the diagram at Standard_score#Percentile_ranks_and_prediction_intervals. The text may be fixed now, but it seems that a correction in the diagram itself is necessary as well. I know how to easily change the letters in the image in Inkscape, but before I do so, can we conclude exactly how it needs to be changed? Is it enough to remove that little 2 above the σ at the top? Mikael Häggström (talk) 11:51, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made an entry at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Statistics for this issue now. Mikael Häggström (talk) 05:38, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help in correcting the diagram 

message: how dow you standardize when it's multivariate?
134.106.106.34 (talk) 16:36, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  and when it's multivariate? 

message: External link to z-score calculator is broken. 173.246.13.195 (talk) 12:30, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken Link 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: Okay I'm gonna be upfront and say flat-out that I'm asking this because I can't find any information on this anywhere else: wouldn't a section on the history of z-scores and standardisation for this be prudent? I'm sure this technique is pretty old but I think it'd be an interesting addition to the page, at least.  APenInSpace (talk) 10:17, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History?