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" The resulting scores were standardized in relation to a standard normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. "
World Development Indicators 2008 - Page 93
by World Bank - 2008 - 440 pages
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The Distribution of Personal Income in the United Kingdom 1949-1963

Thomas Stark - 1972 - 226 pages
...The linear formula for such a line is : Z = b log x+A, where £ is a standardised probability scale with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. The measure of inequality is b, which equals b = 1 from whence the Gibrat index is 100/6 = C. The goodness...
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Practical Statistical Sampling for Auditors

Arthur J. Wilburn - 1984 - 432 pages
...estimating procedure is called the standard error of the estimate. Standard Normal Distribution — A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. This is accomplished by converting the estimate from original units into numbers of standard deviations...
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Equality in America: The View from the Top

Sidney Verba, Gary R. Orren - 1985 - 356 pages
...taken as standardized regression coefficients, all the variables are measured on a standardized metric with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. The mean residual items provide a confirmation that the predicted scores are neither systematically high...
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Ballots of Tumult: A Portrait of Volatility in American Voting

Courtney Brown - 1991 - 254 pages
...standardFig. 6.3. Republican change as a proportion of 1916 Republican mobilization by states, 1916-20 ized with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one). The other floor axis is the initial Republican strength in I916, measured as a proportion of eligibles...
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Economic Challenges in Higher Education

Charles T. Clotfelter, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Malcolm Getz, John J. Siegfried - 2008 - 436 pages
...of the five components of the socioeconomic status variable was converted to a standardized variable with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. The composite variable was then formed as the simple average of nonmissing components. Of the 1 1 ,995...
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The Logic of Conflict: How the System Works & how to Work the System

230 pages
...estimated standard error of the expected probability. This calculation gives a distribution of differences with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. The odds ratio is another way of comparing the two likelihoods. It simply compares the odds of seeing a...
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Study Guide for Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, Volume 2

Ronald L. Moy - 2000 - 364 pages
...Distribution - Different Means .1-Mean = 0 -HI-- Mean = 2 2. The standard normal variable, z, refers to a normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. The standard normal distribution table in the text gives us the probability that z will have a value between...
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Puzzles of Finance: Six Practical Problems and Their Remarkable Solutions

Mark P. Kritzman - 2002 - 214 pages
...lognormally distributed. Spreadsheet software have functions that generate random variables from a normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. We wish to convert the underlying distribution from which the random numbers are drawn to a distribution...
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Memory, Consciousness, and the Brain: The Tallinn Conference

Endel Tulving - 2000 - 442 pages
...look for specific deficits in the patients, the scores from the normals were converted to z, scores with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. The profile of performance for these 94 neuroleptic,naive first ,episode patients is shown in Figure 18.4....
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Wind Loading of Structures

John D. Holmes - 2001 - 380 pages
...inverse cumulative probability distribution of a unit normal (Gaussian) variate, ie a normal variate with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. The relationship between the safety index, P, and the probability of failure, pi, according to equation...
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