STANDARDIZE

The Excel STANDARDIZE function returns a normalized value (z-score) based on the mean and standard deviation. To use the STANDARDIZE function, calculate the mean with the AVERAGE function, and the standard deviation with the STDEV.P function (see below). In the example shown, the formula in D5 is: A z-score, or standard score, is a way of standardizing scores on the same scale by dividing a score's deviation by the standard deviation in a data set. The result is a standard score, or a z-score. It measures the number of standard deviations a given data point is from the mean. A z-score can be negative or positive. A negative z-score indicates a value less than the mean, and a positive z-score indicates a value greater than the mean. The average of every z-score for a data set is zero. To ca