Normalization

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Normalization or normalisation may refer to:

Mathematics and statistics

Normalization of an algebraic variety, the operation consisting in taking locally the integral closure of the ring of regular functions
Normalization (statistics), adjustments of values or distributions in statistics
- Quantile normalization, statistical technique for making two distributions identical in statistical properties
Normalizing (abstract rewriting), an abstract rewriting system in which every object has at least one normal form
- Normalization property (abstract rewriting), a property of a rewrite system in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science
Normalizing constant, in probability theory a constant to make a non-negative function a probability density function
Noether normalization lemma, result of commutative algebra
The process of obtaining a normalized vector
Normalized number, adjusting a floating point number's exponent so that the decimal point is in a fixed position.

Normalization (sociology) or social normalization, the process through which ideas and actions are made to appear culturally "normal"
Normalization model, used in visual neuroscience
Normalisable wave function, in quantum mechanics a wave function normalized for probability distribution
Normalization process theory, a sociological theory of the implementation of new technologies or innovations
Numéraire, a basic standard by which value is computed, especially in economics

Normalization (image processing), changing the range of pixel intensity values
Normalized frequency (digital signal processing), unit of frequency cycles/sample in digital signal processing
Audio normalization, process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the amplitude of an audio signal
Database normalization, used in database theory
Data normalization, general reduction of data to Canonical form
Text normalization, modifying text to make it consistent
NFD normalization, normalization form decomposition for Unicode string searches and comparisons in text processing
URL normalization, process to modify URLs in a consistent manner

Normalization (people with disabilities), principle to make conditions of everyday living available to people with disabilities
Normalization (Czechoslovakia), the restoration of the conditions prevalent before the reform in Czechoslovakia, 1969
Spatial normalization, step in image processing for neuroimaging
A metallurgic process used in Annealing