Normalization or normalisation refers to a process that makes something more normal or regular. Most commonly it refers to:
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Normalization (sociology) or social normalization, the process through which ideas and behaviors that may fall outside of
social norm
Social norms are shared standards of acceptance, acceptable behavior by groups. Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into wikt:rule, rules and laws. Social normat ...
s come to be regarded as "normal"
Normalization or normalisation may also refer to:
Science
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Normalization process theory, a sociological theory of the implementation of new technologies or innovations
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Normalization model The normalization model is an influential model of responses of neurons in primary visual cortex. David Heeger developed the model in the early 1990s, and later refined it together with Matteo Carandini and J. Anthony Movshon. The model involves a ...
, used in visual neuroscience
* Normalization in quantum mechanics: see
Mathematics and statistics
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Normalization of an algebraic variety In algebraic geometry, an algebraic variety or scheme ''X'' is normal if it is normal at every point, meaning that the local ring at the point is an integrally closed domain. An affine variety ''X'' (understood to be irreducible) is normal if and o ...
, the operation consisting in taking locally the integral closure of the ring of regular functions
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Normalization (statistics), adjustments of values or distributions in statistics
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Quantile normalization
In statistics, quantile normalization is a technique for making two distributions identical in statistical properties. To quantile-normalize a test distribution to a reference distribution of the same length, sort the test distribution and sort t ...
, statistical technique for making two distributions identical in statistical properties
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Normalizing (abstract rewriting), an abstract rewriting system in which every object has at least one normal form
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Normalization property (abstract rewriting), a property of a rewrite system in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science
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Normalizing constant
The concept of a normalizing constant arises in probability theory and a variety of other areas of mathematics. The normalizing constant is used to reduce any probability function to a probability density function with total probability of one.
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, in probability theory a constant to make a non-negative function a probability density function
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Noether normalization lemma, result of commutative algebra
* The process of obtaining a
normalized vector
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Normalized number, adjusting a floating point number's exponent so that the decimal point is in a fixed position
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Technology and computer science
* A metallurgic process used in
annealing
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Normalization (image processing), changing the range of pixel intensity values
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Audio normalization, process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the amplitude of an audio signal
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Data normalization, general reduction of data to canonical form
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Database normalization, used in database theory
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NFD normalization
Unicode equivalence is the specification by the Unicode character encoding standard that some sequences of code points represent essentially the same character. This feature was introduced in the standard to allow compatibility with preexisting st ...
, normalization form decomposition for Unicode string searches and comparisons in text processing
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Spatial normalization
In neuroimaging, spatial normalization is an image processing step, more specifically an image registration method. Human brains differ in size and shape, and one goal of spatial normalization is to deform human brain scans so one location in ...
, a step in image processing for neuroimaging
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Text normalization, modifying text to make it consistent
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URL normalization, process to modify URLs in a consistent manner
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Normalized frequency (digital signal processing), unit of frequency cycles/sample in digital signal processing
Other
* The process of establishing normal
diplomatic relations between two countries
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Normalization (people with disabilities), principle to make conditions of everyday living available to people with disabilities
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Normalization (Czechoslovakia), the restoration of the conditions prevalent before the reform in Czechoslovakia, 1969
See also
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Normalized frequency (disambiguation) Normalized frequency can refer to:
* Normalized frequency (digital signal processing)
* Normalized frequency (fiber optics) In an optical fiber, the normalized frequency, ''V'' (also called the V number), is given by
:V = \sqrt\quad = \mathrm,
whe ...
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Normal form (disambiguation)
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