Standardization › Standardization: Normalizing Features for Fair Comparison
Michael BrenndoerferApril 25, 20251 min read
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Standardization is an important preprocessing technique that rescales features to have mean 0 and variance 1. This process is useful for many algorithms, particularly those that rely on distance calculations or regularization penalties.