Normalization

Normalization or normalisation refers to a process that makes something more normal or regular. Most commonly it refers to:

• 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"

Normalization or normalisation may also refer to:

Science

• Normalization process theory, a sociological theory of the implementation of new technologies or innovations
• Normalization model, used in visual neuroscience
• Normalisable wave function, in quantum mechanics a wave function normalized for probability distribution

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
• Probability amplitude#Normalization

Technology and computer science

• A metallurgic process used in annealing
• Normalization (image processing), changing the range of pixel intensity values
• Audio normalization, 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
• NFD normalization, 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
• 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
• 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

See also

• Normalized frequency (disambiguation)
• Normal form (disambiguation)
• Normal (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "normalization" or "normalized"