Scale

Purpose

Scales data using specified means and std. devs.

Synopsis

sx = scale(x,means,stds,options)

Description

sx = scale(x,means) subtracts a vector means from a matrix x and returns the result as sx. If means is the vector of means this routine mean centers x.

sx = scale(x,means,stds) subtracts a vector means from a matrix x, divides each column by the corresponding element in the vector stds and returns the result as sx. If means is the vector of means and stds is the vector of standard deviations this routine atuo-scales x so that each column of sx has zero mean and unit variance.

The optional input options is an options structure contianing the field "stdthreshold" which defines a threshold value for standard deviation below which the threshold value will be used in lieu of the actual value. A scalar value is used as a threshold for all variables. A vector is assumed to be equal in length to stds and describes the threshold to use on each individual element.

See Also

auto, gscaler, medcn, mncn, npreprocess, preprocess, rescale