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Normalization or normalisation refers to a process that makes something more normal or regular.
Science
[edit]- Normalization process theory, a sociological theory of the implementation of new technologies or innovations
- Normalization model, used in visual neuroscience
- Normalization in quantum mechanics, see Wave function § Normalization condition and normalized solution
- Normalization (sociology) or social normalization, the process through which ideas and behaviors that may fall outside of social norms come to be regarded as "normal"
Mathematics and statistics
[edit]- 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
- Vector normalization
- Normalized number, adjusting a floating point number's exponent so that the decimal point is in a fixed position
- Probability amplitude § Normalization
Technology and computer science
[edit]- A metallurgic process used in annealing
- Normalization (image processing), changing the range of pixel intensity values
- Audio normalization, a process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the amplitude of an audio signal
- Data normalization, general reduction of data to canonical form
- Database normalization, used in database theory
- Dimensional normalization, or snowflaking, removal of redundant attributes in a dimensional model
- NFD normalization (normalization form canonical decomposition), a normalization form decomposition for Unicode string searches and comparisons in text processing
- Spatial normalization, a step in image processing for neuroimaging
- Text normalization, modifying text to make it consistent
- URL normalization, process to modify URLs in a consistent manner
- Normalization (machine learning), a technique in machine learning to change activation patterns to be on a similar scale.
- Normalized frequency (digital signal processing), unit of frequency cycles/sample in digital signal processing
Other
[edit]- The process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries
- 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