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What's the difference between Normalization and Standardization?

User15787040559
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Normalization typically means rescales the values into a range of [0,1].

Standardization typically means rescales data to have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1 (unit variance).

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User16826994223
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Normalization typically means rescales the values into a range of [0,1]. Standardization typically means rescales data to have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1 (unit variance).

A link which explains better is -

https://towardsdatascience.com/normalization-vs-standardization-quantitative-analysis-a91e8a79cebf

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