19 Data standardization
This chapter covers
- Methods of data standardization
- Z-score method
- Standard deviation method
- Centering method
- Range method
- Coloring data frames and highlighting observations
- Comparing data sets
It’s not often that an NBA player scores 50 or more points in a game. In fact, during the 2021-22 regular season (1,230 games), it happened only 12 times. The top five scorers in NBA history—Lebron James (still playing), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan—scored at least 50 points in a regular season game 73 times over a grand total of 93 seasons between them.
But during the 1961-62 season, Wilt Chamberlain, then playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, averaged 50 points per game; he then averaged ...
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