How to Scale Variable(s) to Standardize Within Case

This article describes how to create a new variable(s) that is standardized and will have an average of 0 for each respondent, and that will optionally have a standard deviation of 1 for each respondent. The Sample Standard Deviation is used in this calculation. Please consider the data below, on the left is the raw data of a scale question Strongly agree to Strongly disagree. On the right is the same raw data but standardized.

Requirements

• A Displayr document that contains one or more Nominal - Multi, Ordinal - Multi, Numeric - Multi, Numeric - Grid, Nominal, Ordinal, or Numeric variable sets.

Method

To use this transformation:

1. Select one or more Nominal - Multi, Ordinal - Multi, Numeric - Multi, Numeric - Grid, Nominal, Ordinal or Numeric variable sets in the Data Sources tree.
2. Hover and click Plus (+) > Numeric Transformations > Scale > Standardize Within Case.
3. A new variable set containing the standardized data within the respondent is created.

Next

Scale Variable(s) to Standardize Within Variable