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st: RE: sort of standardization


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   "Statalist" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: sort of standardization
Date   Wed, 12 May 2010 20:04:39 +0100

Several answers to this all I think omitted one point about PCA. 

Standardisation in the sense of (value - mean) / sd is unnecessary before PCA because you only need ask for a PCA based on a correlation matrix. 

However, you're not guaranteed the same result with (value - min) / (max - min) OR value / (max - min). 

Nick 
[email protected] 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ginevra Biino

I have to standardize many variables (in order to run PCA).
Besides generating the n corresponding std(varname) vars, which I have already done, I also want to generate n new  variables obtained dividing each variable by its range. Can anybody help me?

 

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