Normalization

Normalization may refer to:

Mathematics and statistics

• Normalization property (abstract rewriting), term in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science
• Noether normalization lemma, result of commutative algebra
• Quantile normalization, statistical technique for making two distributions identical in statistical properties
• Normal scheme, scheme in algebraic geometry
• Normalizing constant, in probability theory
• Normalization (statistics), removing statistical error from measured data
• The process of obtaining a normalized vector

Science

• Normalization (sociology) or social normalization, the process through which ideas and actions are made to appear culturally "normal"
• Normalization model, used in visual neuroscience
• Normalisable wave function in quantum mechanics
• Numéraire, which pertains when only relative prices matter
• Normalization Process Theory, which explains the processes by which innovations become routinely incorporated in their social contexts

Technology

• Database normalization, used in database theory
• Audio normalization, process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the amplitude of an audio signal
• Normalization (image processing), changing the range of pixel intensity values
• Normalized frequency (digital signal processing)
• Text normalization, modifying text to make it consistent
• URL normalization, process to modify URLs in a consistent manner

Other

• Normalisation (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
• Spatial normalization, step in image processing for neuroimaging
• Normalization, a metallurgic process used in Annealing