Standardized variate

From Glossary of Meteorology



standardized variate

A dimensionless random variable, usually that which measures the distance from the mean in units of the standard deviation.

Thus, if x is a random variable with mean μ and standard deviation σ, the variable z defined by the formula
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is a standardized variate.


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